An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men 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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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