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 BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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