Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Illustrious predecessor.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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To innovate is not to reform.