Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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 grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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