By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKEThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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