Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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