Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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