One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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