The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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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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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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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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