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- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
- Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
- Edmund Burke
- He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Edmund Burke
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
- Edmund Burke
- 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.
- Edmund Burke
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- Edmund Burke
- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- Edmund Burke
- No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- Edmund Burke
- 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.
- Edmund Burke
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
- Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790
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