Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEWhen a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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