The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

Quote by Edmund Burke

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The march of the human mind is slow

The march of the human mind is slow

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration

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...

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when...

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when...

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only...

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only...

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I...

If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I...

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you