If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEThe use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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 State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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