Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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