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It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts (Edmund Burke Quotes)
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined (Edmund Burke Quotes)
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman (Edmund Burke Quotes)
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt (Edmund Burke Quotes)
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 (Edmund Burke Quotes)
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests (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 (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole (Edmund Burke Quotes)
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind (Edmund Burke Quotes)
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls (Edmund Burke Quotes)
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy (Edmund Burke Quotes)
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 Quotes)