Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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