The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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