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

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

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

  • Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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