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Taxing is an easy business. A...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

It is undoubtedly the busines...

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 708 quotes

For as wealth is power, so al...

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

No government ought to exist ...

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 708 quotes

It looks to me to be narrow a...

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 708 quotes

As to great and commanding ta...

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Society is indeed a contract....

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 708 quotes

But whoever is a genuine foll...

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Some degree of novelty must b...

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 708 quotes

They never will love where th...

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Taxing is an easy business. A...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

There is nothing in the world...

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I consider how little man is,...

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Vice itself lost half its evi...

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Prejudice is of ready applica...

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 708 quotes

The individual is foolish; th...

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

What is it we all seek for in...

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 708 quotes

As the rose-tree is composed ...

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

He was not merely a chip off ...

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

It is very rare, indeed, for ...

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

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