People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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