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There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding (Edmund Burke Quotes)
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man’s mind an idea of a preference which he has not (Edmund Burke Quotes)
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters (Edmund Burke Quotes)
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together (Edmund Burke Quotes)
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it (Edmund Burke Quotes)
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate (Edmund Burke Quotes)
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men (Edmund Burke Quotes)
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever (Edmund Burke Quotes)
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition (Edmund Burke Quotes)