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Edmund Burke quotes: Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Edmund Burke quotes: The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
Edmund Burke quotes: Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke quotes: One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke quotes: Liberty, without wisdom, is license. Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Edmund Burke quotes: Our patience will achieve more than our force. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke quotes: I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything. I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
Edmund Burke quotes: There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth. There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.
Edmund Burke quotes: The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke quotes: Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Edmund Burke quotes: Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
Edmund Burke quotes: Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Edmund Burke quotes: The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund Burke quotes: Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Edmund Burke quotes: Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man. Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
Edmund Burke quotes: Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
Edmund Burke quotes: The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke quotes: Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Edmund Burke quotes: Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
Edmund Burke quotes: The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke quotes: Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke quotes: Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke quotes: He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Edmund Burke quotes: True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
Edmund Burke quotes: Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund Burke quotes: A coward's courage is in his tongue. A coward's courage is in his tongue.
Edmund Burke quotes: This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Edmund Burke quotes: Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
Edmund Burke quotes: It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke quotes: Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Edmund Burke quotes: Evil succeeds when good men do nothing Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
Edmund Burke quotes: To innovate is not to reform. To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke quotes: In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
Edmund Burke quotes: Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close. Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close.
Edmund Burke quotes: The only training for the heroic is the mundane. The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Edmund Burke quotes: I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Edmund Burke quotes: No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke quotes: It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Edmund Burke quotes: The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service. The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
Edmund Burke quotes: Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke quotes: 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 fly. 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 fly.
Edmund Burke quotes: All virtue which is impracticable is spurious. All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
Edmund Burke quotes: All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke quotes: An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Edmund Burke quotes: An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke quotes: Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
Edmund Burke quotes: It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Edmund Burke quotes: A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Edmund Burke quotes: Education is a nation's cheapest defence Education is a nation's cheapest defence
Edmund Burke quotes: The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy. The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
Edmund Burke quotes: Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund Burke quotes: Public calamity is a mighty leveller. Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
Edmund Burke quotes: Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle. Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke quotes: Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature. Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Edmund Burke quotes: Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke quotes: The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke quotes: Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Edmund Burke quotes: If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor
Edmund Burke quotes: There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Edmund Burke quotes: The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke quotes: Falsehood is a perennial spring. Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke quotes: Evil prevails when good men fail to act. Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
Edmund Burke quotes: To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Edmund Burke quotes: You can never plan the future by the past. You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke quotes: Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke quotes: Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
Edmund Burke quotes: Where mystery begins religion ends. Where mystery begins religion ends.
Edmund Burke quotes: The grand instructor, time. The grand instructor, time.
Edmund Burke quotes: Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth. Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.
Edmund Burke quotes: Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica. Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
Edmund Burke quotes: The march of the human mind is slow. The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke quotes: Turn over a new leaf. Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund Burke quotes: The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little. The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Edmund Burke quotes: Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Edmund Burke quotes: All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke quotes: Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke quotes: I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke quotes: Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke quotes: Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Edmund Burke quotes: Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
Edmund Burke quotes: That cardinal virtue, temperance. That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Edmund Burke quotes: A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke quotes: It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke quotes: In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke quotes: The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it. The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.
Edmund Burke quotes: There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.
Edmund Burke quotes: He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
Edmund Burke quotes: No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Edmund Burke quotes: The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
Edmund Burke quotes: There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
Edmund Burke quotes: But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader. But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
Edmund Burke quotes: Ambition can creep as well as soar. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke quotes: Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke quotes: Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Edmund Burke quotes: To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke quotes: No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke quotes: Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures. Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Edmund Burke quotes: The traveller has reached the end of the journey! The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund Burke quotes: Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke quotes: Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

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