Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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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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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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