Edmund Burke

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”

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

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

“Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

“Good order is the foundation of all things.”

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”

“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”

“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”

“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.”