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

—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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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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

—Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

—Edmund Burke

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

—Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke

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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

A man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

—Henry Miller

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

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Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.

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I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

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