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.
EDMUND BURKEAll the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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