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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

Change Conservation Conversation State
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Darkness Force Need People Success
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE

Exact Greatness Nature
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE

Defend Errors Inheritance
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety

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