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

"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."
— Edmund Burke

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
— Edmund Burke

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
— Edmund Burke

"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."
— Edmund Burke

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
— Edmund Burke

"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)

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
— Edmund Burke

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
— Edmund Burke

"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
— Edmund Burke

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
— Edmund Burke

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

"The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

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— Edmund Burke

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
— Edmund Burke

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

""All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.""
— Edmund Burke

"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
— Edmund Burke

"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."
— Edmund Burke

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

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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— Edmund Burke

"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

""All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
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— Edmund Burke

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
— Edmund Burke

"The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary."
— Edmund Burke (Select Works of Edmund Burke: The Letters on a Regicide Peace)

"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

"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."
— Edmund Burke

"They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."
— Edmund Burke

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

"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)

"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."
— Edmund Burke

"The surest way for evil to triumph in the world is for good men to do nothing. "
— Edmund Burke

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
— Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for a few good men to do nothing."
— Edmund Burke

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. "
— Edmund Burke

"Our patience will achieve more than our force. "
— Edmund Burke

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. "
— Edmund Burke

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

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing….."
— Edmund Burke

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
— Edmund Burke

"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
— Edmund Burke

"All that is required for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
— Edmund Burke

"“All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” "
— Edmund Burke

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. "
— Edmund Burke

"All that’s needed for evil to smirk
Is for good men to do nought"
— Edmund Burke

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

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— Edmund Burke

""The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.""
— Edmund Burke

"All governments-indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act-is founded on compromise and barter."
— Edmund Burke