To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEOur patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEThe great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKEEquity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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 BURKETrue religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKEIn history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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 BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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 BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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