Edmund Burke Good Quotations

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

I did my best. I was nervous and I just took off too fast. I didn't run a smart race. I just didn't have enough at the end. I can come back next year with a clean slate. I was glad to be beat by some good quality runners. I'll be back.

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

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

Good order is the foundation of all good things

A very good part of the mischief that vex the world arises from words