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.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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