History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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