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.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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