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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More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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 that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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