By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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