To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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 credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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