A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEAll the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKEThe Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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 BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKEHe that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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