Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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