A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKENo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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