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 BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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