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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician [more author details]

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.: Edmund Burke
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.: Edmund Burke
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He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.: Edmund Burke
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.: Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.: Edmund Burke
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.: Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.: Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.: Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
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Good order is the foundation of all things.: Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.: Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, 1796
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.: Edmund Burke, Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.: Edmund Burke, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.: Edmund Burke, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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