There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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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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 great empire and little minds go ill together.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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