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.
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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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