A representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.
Quotes by Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is that good men do nothing
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

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