Edmund Burke on foundation
Edmund Burke107 quotes“True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.”
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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