Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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