All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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