More from Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Justice 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke 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 Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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
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Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it’s a British expression. There’s no couture in their darling.
Jojo MoyesJojo Moyes Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
Lord ByronLord Byron Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.
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