But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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