The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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