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Whole Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from…
- The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
- Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation...
- There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,…
- I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
- 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.
- In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their…
- Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and…
- The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.…
- In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend…
- 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…
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents…
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