This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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 BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKELiberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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 BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEHistory is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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 BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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 BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKEThe use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKEPeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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