Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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