If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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