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.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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