Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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