True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — 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
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — 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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