To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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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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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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