He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKEIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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 speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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