Edmund Burke

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

“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”

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

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

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”

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

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”

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

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

“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”