People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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