Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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