Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.