Edmund Burke quotes by Edmund Burke





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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."
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"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
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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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths."
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
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"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
Edmund Burke (Reflections On The Revolution In France)
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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
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"The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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""All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.""
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"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
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"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."
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""All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
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"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
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"The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary."
Edmund Burke (Select Works of Edmund Burke: The Letters on a Regicide Peace)
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"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
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"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."
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"They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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"You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power."
Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France)
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"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."
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"The surest way for evil to triumph in the world is for good men to do nothing. "
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"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France)
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for a few good men to do nothing."
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"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. "
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force. "
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. "
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing.""
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing….."
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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
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"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
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"“All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” "
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. "
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"All that’s needed for evil to smirk
Is for good men to do nought"
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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""The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.""
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"All governments-indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act-is founded on compromise and barter."
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