To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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