We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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 people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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