Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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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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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The 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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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