All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
