Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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