The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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