All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEManners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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