Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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