A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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