00:00The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
00:06Edmund Burke
00:09A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
00:15Edmund Burke
00:19Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
00:23Edmund Burke
00:27Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
00:32Edmund Burke
00:36No man was ever a great persecutor for the love of God.
00:41Edmund Burke
00:45Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.
00:50Edmund Burke
00:53To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
01:00Edmund Burke
01:03The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
01:08Edmund Burke
01:12Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency, it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and
01:19virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved.
01:27Edmund Burke
01:30He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
01:36Edmund Burke
01:41Hypocrisy, itself, is a homage to virtue.
01:45Edmund Burke
01:49Our patience will achieve more than our force.
01:53Edmund Burke
01:57The age of chivalry is gone.
02:00That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
02:09Edmund Burke
02:13Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
02:21Edmund Burke
02:25Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
02:31Edmund Burke
02:34Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great
02:41cattle, repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that
02:47those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.
02:52Edmund Burke
02:55The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
03:00Edmund Burke
03:04It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I
03:10ought to do.
03:11Edmund Burke
03:15Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
03:20Edmund Burke
03:23Public opinion is the true sovereign in every free country.
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