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Against Quotes by Edmund Burke
- I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
- The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
- 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…
- I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing…
- It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not…
- Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and…
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents…
- Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able…
- There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most…
- The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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