Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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