To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKELiberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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