The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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