Quote by Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of actin

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Welfare
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. – Lord Byron

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Fear

President Obamas 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think its a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and thats a good thing. – Andrea Jung

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Fear

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. – Diane Abbott

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Fear

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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Fear

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You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion. – Midge Ure

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