Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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