Edmund Burke on freedom
Edmund Burke107 quotes“Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.”
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke A great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke But 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 BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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