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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
Patience will achieve more than force.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.