It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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 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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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