Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKENo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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