The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence 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.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEEvil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKEThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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