It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKEThere 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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