There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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