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Edmund Burke Quotes
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Famous Edmund Burke Quotations
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British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)
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- All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
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- All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
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- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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- Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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- An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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- Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.
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- Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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- Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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- Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
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- Good order is the foundation of all things.
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- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
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- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
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- History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
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- I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
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- It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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- Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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- Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.
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- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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- No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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- Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
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- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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- The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
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- The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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- The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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- There 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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- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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- We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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- When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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- Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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- You can never plan the future by the past.
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