The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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