All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEWhen a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
EDMUND BURKEApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKESuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEThere is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKEThis sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKEThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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