“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of… — 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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules… — 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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