No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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