black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE

Corruption Existence Liberty People
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Darkness Force Need People Success
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE

Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE

Essence Force Law Stupidity
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE

Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Burke Quotes