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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice

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