Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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