More from Edmund Burke
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II Section IIThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
