Edmund Burke on achievement
Edmund Burke107 quotes“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke That 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke History 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 BurkeEdmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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