Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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