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 BURKEAll 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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