I 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 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 BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKEJustice 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 BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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 BURKETurn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKEWhen a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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 BURKEThe greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKELiberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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