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Quote by Edmund Burke
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatien

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Liberty
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Edmund Burke
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Prejudice
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Edmund Burke
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Revolution
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When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. – English Proverb

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Revolution

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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Revolution

The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Revolution

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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Revolution

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