All 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.
EDMUND BURKENo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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