Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes

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

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

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

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. -- In a letter, April 3, 1777, to the Sheriffs of Bristol.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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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