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.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a 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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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