Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

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Quotes by Edmund Burke:

• Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

• What is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

• The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

• The fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

• The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

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

• A coward's courage is in his tongue.

• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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