Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."
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"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."
Edmund Burke
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke
"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
Edmund Burke
"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
Edmund Burke
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
Edmund Burke
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."
Edmund Burke
"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke
"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."
Edmund Burke
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
Edmund Burke
"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths."
Edmund Burke
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke
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