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Edmund Burke Quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.



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



Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.



The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.



All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.



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.



In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.



When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.