Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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