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

Edmund Burke

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE

Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE

Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE

Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE

End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness

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