Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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 blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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