Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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