But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKEBut what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKEBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEManners 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 BURKEHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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 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 BURKEExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKEIn a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKEAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEGood order is the foundation of all things.
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