But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKEBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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 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 BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKEA great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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 BURKERage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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