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.
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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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