Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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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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