A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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