All Edmund Burke Quotes
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Badass
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. Anxious
- Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Conservative
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Abuse
- You can never plan the future by the past. Future
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Action
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Carpe Diem
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Afford
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Bad
- Our patience will achieve more than our force. Achieve
- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Betray
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Associate
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Civil Rights
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Capable
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Humanity
- 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… All
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Among
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Act
- By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. Dike
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Art
- Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Fairness
- He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Adversity
- Education is the cheap defense of nations. Cheap
- When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no… Auction
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. All