A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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