The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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