The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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