It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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