All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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