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Moments Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from…
- 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…
- Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
- The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires…
- The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is…
- 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…
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