Edmund Burke on greatness
Edmund Burke107 quotes“The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.”
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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.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke That 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 BurkeEdmund Burke The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
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