Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.


Edmund Burke

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EDMUND BURKE
Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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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...
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
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