Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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