The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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