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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE

Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE

End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE

Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Man Struggle
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

Change Conservation Conversation State
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE

Exact Greatness Nature
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
EDMUND BURKE

Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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

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