By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKESuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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 Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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