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Quotations By Edmund Burke

Danger

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Discretion

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Evil

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

Freedom

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke

Grief

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. -- Edmund Burke

Perseverance

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

Religion

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.

Religion

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. -- Edmund Burke