The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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