To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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