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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKE

Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE

Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife

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