A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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