Edmund Burke

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. 

You can never plan the future by the past. 

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. 

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

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. 

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. 

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. 

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. 

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. 

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. 

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. 

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. 

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. 

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. 

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. 

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.