More from Edmund 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 Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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