QUOTES OF THE DAY 8-7-13

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

- Edmund Burke

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke

“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
― Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
― Edmund Burke

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
― Edmund Burke

“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”
― Edmund Burke