To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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