Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEThe essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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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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