All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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