Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Edmund Burke:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."

"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."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"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."

"He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our ant"