To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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