Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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 great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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