History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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