Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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