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"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare." -
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Edmund Burke
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Top 5 quotes from Edmund Burke
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"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."
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Top 5 quotes from Politics
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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