Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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