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.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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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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