The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEThe blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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