By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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