Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKENobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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 that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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