Edmund Burke on command
Edmund Burke107 quotes“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing 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 BurkeEdmund Burke A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeEdmund 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.
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More on command
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Berthold AuerbachBerthold Auerbach The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner I was coming into a situation I didn’t really know much about, and now, after a couple of years, the character’s kind of mellowed and gotten comfortable working at the command center and very comfortable with his troops.
Beau BridgesBeau Bridges The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade The only thing I command is respect.
Kyrie IrvingKyrie Irving This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur