A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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