Good order is the foundation of all things.

—Edmund Burke

About Edmund Burke

Portrait of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke...

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

—Edmund Burke

He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

—Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

—Edmund Burke

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

—Edmund Burke

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

—Benjamin Franklin

Order is power.

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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