Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The 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.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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