If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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