Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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