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.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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