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Much Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
- I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the…
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their…
- People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have…
- By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
- Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment…
- To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a…
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