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.
EDMUND BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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