This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKEPeople 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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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 State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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