Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, can never willingly abandon it.
— Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
— Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
— Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
— Edmund Burke