Edmund Burke

(80 votes)   All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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(51 votes)   Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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(41 votes)   Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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(19 votes)   Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.

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(18 votes)   Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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(14 votes)   In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

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(12 votes)   One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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(312 votes)   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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1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(244 votes)   We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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(141 votes)   In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

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(131 votes)   And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.

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(127 votes)   They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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(110 votes)   Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

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(106 votes)   In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

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(104 votes)   Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.

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1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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