Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEYour 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 BURKEThe 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 BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKEThe great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEThere 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 BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEThat the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKEThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEEvil prevails when good men fail to act.
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