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.
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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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