All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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