Quotes by Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke

He who accuses all of mankind convicts only one.
--Edmund Burke

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
--Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations, which may soon be turned into complaints.
--Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. He that has but five shillings in the partnership, has as good a right to it, as he that has five hundred pounds has to his larger proportion. But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock...
--Edmund Burke

We are afraid to put men to live and trade on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and ages.
--Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
--Edmund Burke

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
--Edmund Burke

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

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
--Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
--Edmund Burke