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True Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
- 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…
- 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…
- Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
- But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,…
- In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
- The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in…
- True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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