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Quotes by Edmund Burke
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Edmund Burke"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
Edmund Burke"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
Edmund Burke"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"You can never plan the future by the past."
Edmund Burke"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
Edmund Burke"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Edmund Burke"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
Edmund Burke"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
Edmund Burke"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"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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
Edmund Burke"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
Edmund Burke"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
Edmund Burke"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
Edmund Burke"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."
Edmund Burke"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
Edmund Burke"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
Edmund Burke"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
Edmund Burke"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
Edmund Burke"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"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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
Edmund Burke"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Edmund Burke"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"
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