No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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