No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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