Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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