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.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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 credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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