A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEA great empire and little minds go ill together.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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