Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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