By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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