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Very Quotes by Edmund Burke
- And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
- A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
- The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
- The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
- Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would…
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to…
- It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they…
- I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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