Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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