The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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