Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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