The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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