Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEAll 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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