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Public 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 effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the…
- All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,…
- To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)…
- Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
- It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not…
- Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
- The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
- Public calamity is a mighty leveler
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