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.
EDMUND BURKESuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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