No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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