The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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