All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke