Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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 men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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