The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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