A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEI 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 BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKETurn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKEThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThis sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE