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Quote by Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscie

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. – Aristotle

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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