Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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