Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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