Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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