Aphorisms Galore!

Edmund Burke

b. 1729; d. 1797

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

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All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke, in Altruism and Cynicism