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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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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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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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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