A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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