All Edmund Burke Quotes
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Edmund Burke
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
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