To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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