Almost Essential Quotes by Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke has 358 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
• Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
• You can never plan the future by the past.
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
• Our patience will achieve more than our force.
• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it…
• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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