All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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