Edmund Burke Quotes

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Patience will achieve more than force.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is out helper.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Society is indeed a contract…it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Every human benefit, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though for but one year, can never willingly abandon it.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.