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.
EDMUND BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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 hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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