To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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