28 March

Edmund Burke was a brilliant political thinker, living at a time when politics was probably even more dire than today. Some of his wisdom (note women weren't thought to be active players in society in his day, although he does say some very wise things about women as well): "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." "Our patience will achieve more than our force." "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." "No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning than fear." "Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”