Edmund Burke quotes - page 11

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. (Edmund Burke)
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. View quote
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. View quote
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. View quote
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static. View quote
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. View quote
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads. View quote
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth. View quote
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Man is by his constitution a religious animal. View quote
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. View quote
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. (Edmund Burke)
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it. View quote
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. View quote
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. View quote
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator. View quote
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. View quote
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There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear. View quote
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Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. View quote
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. View quote
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. View quote
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My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. (Edmund Burke)
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them. View quote
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Where mystery begins religion ends. View quote
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. View quote
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. View quote
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