Edmund Burke Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

• The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

  Edmund Burke

  Motivational, Peace, Fire

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

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25

• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Military

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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