More quotes by Edmund Burke

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths."
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."