A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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