There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEEquity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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