By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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