Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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