Edmund Burke quotes - page 3

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. (Edmund Burke)
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. View quote
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. View quote
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Ambition can creep as well as soar. View quote
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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. View quote
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. View quote
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Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. View quote
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Falsehood is a perennial spring. View quote
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. View quote
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A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. (Edmund Burke)
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. View quote
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover. View quote
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In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. View quote
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. View quote
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. View quote
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. View quote
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. View quote
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. (Edmund Burke)
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. View quote
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. View quote
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. View quote
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