No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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