Edmund Burke Quotes

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

Edmund Burke

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke
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