Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The 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.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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 the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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