Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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