It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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