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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
— Edmund Burke
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
— Edmund Burke
“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”
— Edmund Burke
“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”
— Edmund Burke
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
— Edmund Burke
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
— Edmund Burke
“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
— Edmund Burke
“Falsehood is a perennial spring.”
— Edmund Burke
“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.”
— Edmund Burke
“Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.”
— Edmund Burke
“Good order is the foundation of all things.”
— Edmund Burke
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
— Edmund Burke
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
— Edmund Burke
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
— Edmund Burke
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
— Edmund Burke
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
— Edmund Burke
“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
— Edmund Burke
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
— Edmund Burke
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
— Edmund Burke
“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
— Edmund Burke
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
— Edmund Burke
“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
— Edmund Burke
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
— Edmund Burke
“The traveller has reached the end of the journey!”
— Edmund Burke
“To innovate is not to reform.”
— Edmund Burke
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
— Edmund Burke
“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”
— Edmund Burke
“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”
— Edmund Burke
“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”
— 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
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