Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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