Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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