Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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