There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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