But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKEAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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