Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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 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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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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