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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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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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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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