Edmund Burke

Statesman

Title	Category
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.	Uncategorized
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.	Uncategorized
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.	Uncategorized
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.	Uncategorized
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.	Uncategorized
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.	Uncategorized
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.	Uncategorized
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.	Uncategorized
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.	Uncategorized
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.	Uncategorized
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.	Uncategorized
Beauty is the promise of happiness.	Uncategorized
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.	Uncategorized
You can never plan the future by the past.	Uncategorized
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.	Uncategorized