By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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