The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEThe Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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