Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument...

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument...

I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like...

I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like...

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the...

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the...

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

The march of the human mind is slow.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.