Edmund Burke on command
Edmund Burke107 quotes“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that’s the deal. If we don’t know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side — and but awaits our command.
Neale Donald WalschNeale Donald Walsch When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
John VianneyJohn Vianney No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?
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