The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKEThe great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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