Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKELiberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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