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Most Quotes by Edmund Burke
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
- Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation...
- A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
- The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
- When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism…
- In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend…
- But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,…
- It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing…
- My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I…
- The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
- 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…
- People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster