Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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