Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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