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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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Edmund Burke
#Inspirational Quotes
#Wisdom Quotes
#Witty Quotes
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“The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.”
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Edmund Burke
#Government Quotes
#Order Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
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Edmund Burke
#Wisdom Quotes
#Historical Quotes
#Conservative Quotes
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“The march of the human mind is slow.”
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Edmund Burke
#Mind Quotes
#Progress Quotes
#March Quotes
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“Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.”
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Edmund Burke
#Political Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Directors Quotes
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“History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.”
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Edmund Burke
#Carpe Diem Quotes
#Pact Quotes
#Carpe Quotes
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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
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Edmund Burke
#Inspirational Quotes
#Patience Quotes
#Virtue Quotes
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“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
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Edmund Burke
#Life Quotes
#Encouragement Quotes
#Time Quotes
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“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
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Edmund Burke
#Business Quotes
#Ambition Quotes
#Creeps Quotes
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“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”
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Edmund Burke
#Emotional Quotes
#Curiosity Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“You can never plan the future by the past.”
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Edmund Burke
#Time Quotes
#Smart Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
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“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.”
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Edmund Burke
Source : "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)
#Air Quotes
#Law Quotes
#Vex Quotes
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“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
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Edmund Burke
#Long Quotes
#People Quotes
#Political Quotes
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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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Edmund Burke
#Inspirational Quotes
#Friendship Quotes
#Change Quotes
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“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
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Edmund Burke
#Errors Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
#Complaining Quotes
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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
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Edmund Burke
Source : Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
#Wisdom Quotes
#Giving Up Quotes
#Freedom Quotes
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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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Edmund Burke
#Honesty Quotes
#Integrity Quotes
#War Quotes
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“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.”
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Edmund Burke
#Wisdom Quotes
#Evil Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
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“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
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Edmund Burke
#Errors Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
#Inheritance Quotes
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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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Edmund Burke
#Judging Quotes
#Liberty Quotes
#Noise Quotes
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“Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.”
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Edmund Burke
#Sympathy Quotes
#Passion Quotes
#Heart Quotes
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“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.”
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Edmund Burke
Source : 'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 12
#Power Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Relief Quotes
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“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”
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Edmund Burke
#Failure Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Sides Quotes
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“In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.”
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Edmund Burke
#Summer Quotes
#Art Quotes
#Army Quotes
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“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
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Edmund Burke
#Mind Quotes
#Body Quotes
#Facts Quotes
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“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”
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Edmund Burke
#Tyrants Quotes
#Tyranny Quotes
#Multitudes Quotes
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
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Edmund Burke
#Beauty Quotes
#Promise Quotes
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“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
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Edmund Burke
#Agreement Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Politics Quotes
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“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”
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Edmund Burke
#Heart Quotes
#Tyrants Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
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Edmund Burke
#Nature Quotes
#Greatness Quotes
#Statistics Quotes
