Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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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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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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