The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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