To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKERage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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