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.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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