Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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