All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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.
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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