Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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These are some quotes by Irish author Edmund Burke Statesman, who lived between January 12, 1729 and July 9, 1797.

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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