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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More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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