To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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