Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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