One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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