Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
- Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (attributed)
- Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
