Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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