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

Quote by Edmund Burke

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do...

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do...

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to...

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,...

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion;...

Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion;...

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead...

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead...

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

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