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May Quotes by Edmund Burke
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
- Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
- Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
- The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,…
- If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
- The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
- Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
- Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too…
- 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…
- In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they…
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and…
- A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and…
- Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
- Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong