We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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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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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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