He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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