Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKEThis sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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