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I despair of ever receiving t...

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Party is a body of men united...

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The power of discretionary di...

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I thought ten thousand swords...

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I do not know how to wish suc...

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The question is not whether y...

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Nothing ought to be more weig...

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

We must soften into a creduli...

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 708 quotes

Crimes lead into one another....

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

It ought to be the happiness ...

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I am not one of those who thi...

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

To execute laws is a royal of...

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 708 quotes

There are circumstances in wh...

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

A definition may be very exac...

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 708 quotes

Nnothing tends more to the co...

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

We set ourselves to bite the ...

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Many of the greatest tyrants ...

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 708 quotes

The poorest being that crawls...

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The wise determine from the g...

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 708 quotes

Falsehood and delusion are al...

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

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