But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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