To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEThose who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKEPeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEAll that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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