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Some Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
- A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical…
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
- 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…
- When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to…
- There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
- Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or…
- All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
- What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness…
- 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…
- Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
- God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad…
- I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
- What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness…
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