All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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