Edmund Burke

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

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

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

"Ambition can creep as well as soar. "

"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. "

"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. "

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. "

"Good order is the foundation of all things. "

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. "

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper. "

"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. "

"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. "

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. "

"Never despair but if you do, work on in despair. "

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

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. "

"Our patience will achieve more than our force. "

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

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. "

"The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. "

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. "

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. "

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

"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. "

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

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. "

"You can never plan the future by the past. "