Edmund Burke Quotes

By on July 5, 2013

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

Edmund Burke Quotes

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

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

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

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