The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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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