The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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