To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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The 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.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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