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.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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