General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEThe blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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 BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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 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 BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKEAmong a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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 BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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