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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 (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred (Edmund Burke Quotes)
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them (Edmund Burke Quotes)
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly (Edmund Burke Quotes)
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit (Edmund Burke Quotes)
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy (Edmund Burke Quotes)
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation (Edmund Burke Quotes)
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other (Edmund Burke Quotes)
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born (Edmund Burke Quotes)
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind (Edmund Burke Quotes)
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man’s virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is... not to be taught a priori... That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial (Edmund Burke Quotes)