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Edmund Burke Quotes

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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people  (Edmund Burke Quotes) All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren  (Edmund Burke Quotes) An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection  (Edmund Burke Quotes) All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing  (Edmund Burke Quotes) I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity  (Edmund Burke Quotes) It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph  (Edmund Burke Quotes) What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate  (Edmund Burke Quotes) 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 aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society  (Edmund Burke Quotes) All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter  (Edmund Burke Quotes) All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice  (Edmund Burke Quotes) But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever  (Edmund Burke Quotes) But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint  (Edmund Burke Quotes) I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together  (Edmund Burke Quotes) People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation  (Edmund Burke Quotes) There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination  (Edmund Burke Quotes) There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations  (Edmund Burke Quotes) When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle  (Edmund Burke Quotes) All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent  (Edmund Burke Quotes) The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself  (Edmund Burke Quotes) Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things  (Edmund Burke Quotes) The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another  (Edmund Burke Quotes) To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil  (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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