Edmund Burke on difficult
Edmund Burke107 quotes“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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 BurkeEdmund Burke To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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