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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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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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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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