Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEThe greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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