Edmund Burke Quotes

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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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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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Infant Original Planning Thinking
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection

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