Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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