The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKEThe grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Prudence 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.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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