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Cannot Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
- It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
- Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
- Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all…
- The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist…
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins…
- I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there…
- The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to…
- I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
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- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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