The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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