The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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