Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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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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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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