To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEGood order is the foundation of all things.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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