By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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 read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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