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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKE

Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Affection Animal Creation Social
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE

Defend Errors Inheritance
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself

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