Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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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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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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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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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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