The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Rage 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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The 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.
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