Edmund Burke
Quotations
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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” -Edmund Burke
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.” -Edmund Burke
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“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.” -Edmund Burke
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“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.” -Edmund Burke
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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” -Edmund Burke
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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.” -Edmund Burke
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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” -Edmund Burke
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” -Edmund Burke
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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” -Edmund Burke
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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” -Edmund Burke
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“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.” -Edmund Burke
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“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
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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.” -Edmund Burke
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“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” -Edmund Burke
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“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.” -Edmund Burke
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” -Edmund Burke
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“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.” -Edmund Burke
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“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” -Edmund Burke
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“You can never plan the future by the past.” -Edmund Burke
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“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” -Edmund Burke
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” -Edmund Burke
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“Education is the cheap defense of nations.” -Edmund Burke
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“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” -Edmund Burke
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“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
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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” -Edmund Burke
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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” -Edmund Burke
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. – Edmund Burke
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