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Edmund Burke, a British statesman and writer, was born on January 12, 1729, and died on July 9, 1797. He was one of the most prominent political thinkers of the 18th century, known for his profound insights into liberty, democracy, and conservatism.

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Famous Edmund Burke Quotes

“It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.”

Evil Justice Fairness

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“All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing”

Evil Good

Book:The Works of the Right Honorable

Source: The Works of the Right Honorable

“To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.”

People Evil Politics Interest Responsibility Power Objects Election Mediums Glorious Agreement Governance

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“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”

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“A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.”

Looks May Evil Practice Theory Excellent

Book:The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”

Men Evil Names Causes Wise Vices Permanent Organs Remedy Occasional Transitory

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.”

Evil Calling Reformation

Book:The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated: Being a Reprint of [his] Essay,

Source: The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated: Being a Reprint of [his] Essay,

“There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.”

Men Believe Wisdom Evil Honest Safety Honest Man Evil Man Eternal Vigilance

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

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

“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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Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.”

Evil Enemy Good And Evil

Book:Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

Source: Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

“Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”

Evil Lost Half Losing Vices

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“Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”

Years Evil Hours Half Hundred Rage Prudence Foresight Frenzy Deliberation

Book:Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In

Source: Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In

“All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.”

Men Needs Done Evil Liberty Good Man Doing Nothing

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“Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.”

Evil Anticipation

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“The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.”

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“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.”

Ifs Men Believe Hands Evil Can Do Succeed Despair Good Man Declaration Council Washing Irresponsibility

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“Evil prevails when good men fail to act.”

Men Action Evil Failing Good Man

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“Evil succeeds when good men do nothing”

Men Evil Succeed Good Man

Author:Edmund Burke