Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEManners 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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