The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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