One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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