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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own (Edmund Burke Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery (Edmund Burke Quotes)
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either (Edmund Burke Quotes)
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own (Edmund Burke Quotes)
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? (Edmund Burke Quotes)
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others (Edmund Burke Quotes)
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude (Edmund Burke Quotes)
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function (Edmund Burke Quotes)
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe (Edmund Burke Quotes)
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures (Edmund Burke Quotes)
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them (Edmund Burke Quotes)
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear (Edmund Burke Quotes)
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence (Edmund Burke Quotes)
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases (Edmund Burke Quotes)
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded (Edmund Burke Quotes)
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows (Edmund Burke Quotes)
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them (Edmund Burke Quotes)
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world (Edmund Burke Quotes)
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer (Edmund Burke Quotes)