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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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"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. |
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"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. |
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
- Edmund Burke, More quotation on Patience. |
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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. |
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"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, More quotation on Fear. |
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"Good order is the foundation of all things."
- Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790. |