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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKE

Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Liberty True
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKE

Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE

Love Man Power

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