All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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