What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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