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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke
Revolution
Manners
Opinions
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Men
Evil
Nothing
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
Society
Adultery
Murder
Preaching
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
Love
Men
Tax
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
Eating
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Want
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.
Edmund Burke
Men
Beer
Countries
Opium
Pressure
Wine
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Nature
Change
Law
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
God
Man
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Men
Sacrifice
Struggle
Will
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
Love
Country
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Nerves
Skill
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy
Nothing
Promise
Promises
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
Health
Virtue
May
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
Business
Understanding