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Famous Edmund Burke Quotes
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
“My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
“All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.”