It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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