People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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