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Scheme Quotes by Edmund Burke
- 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…
- 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…
- Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue;…
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- I have no grand scheme. — Dave Attell
- I'm scared of actors with a scheme. — Cate Blanchett
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan
- Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke
- There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that… — Shirley Chisholm
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open,… — Winston Churchill
- In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. — Grover Cleveland
- When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of… — Martin Amis
- It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity… — Victor Niederhoffer
- Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme. — Bernard Katz
- To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is… — Gertrude Jekyll
- A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased. — Edwin Lutyens