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    Edmund Burke

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    All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing... ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #responsibility #society #inspirational

    People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #family #family

    For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #beauty

    All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #evil #good #men #world #men

    The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #realism #nature

    All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men(and women)to do nothing. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #inspirational

    It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #prosperity #design

    By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #even #gnawing #may #nation #rat

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


    — Edmund Burke

    #barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

    Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #handle #lie #many #sin #them






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    Macaulay recorded in his diary: "I have now finiEdmund Burked reading again most of Burke's works. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you. He graduated in 1748.

    Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman author orator political theorist and philosopher who after moving to England served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. Since the 20th century he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century.

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