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Political Quotes by Edmund Burke
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
- A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
- Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial…
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- 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…
- Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them…
- Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power…
- You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the…
- Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
- This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
- By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their…
- To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is…
- I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in…
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- 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle