By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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 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.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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