History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEAll that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKEEquity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEAll the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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