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

Edmund Burke

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

More Fear Quotes

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)

He who fights with the future has a more dangerous enemy.

Søren Kierkegaard · Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits (1847)

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Lucretius · De Rerum Natura, III

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