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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
― Edmund Burke

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke

“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
― Edmund Burke

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
― Edmund Burke

“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.”
― Edmund Burke

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”
― Edmund Burke

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
― Edmund Burke

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
― Edmund Burke

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
― Edmund Burke

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
― Edmund Burke

“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.”
― Edmund Burke

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
― Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
― Edmund Burke

“As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.”
― Edmund Burke

“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

“To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
― Edmund Burke

“Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us”
― Edmund Burke

“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
― Edmund Burke