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The unbought grace of life, th...

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The hottest fires in hell are ...

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

But whoever is a genuine follo...

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

The grand instructor, time....

The grand instructor, time.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

An event has happened, upon wh...

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The public interest requires d...

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

There is a sort of enthusiasm ...

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 708 quotes

Those who have been once intox...

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 708 quotes

People must be taken as they a...

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The only infallible criterion ...

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Next to love, Sympathy is the ...

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The most favourable laws can d...

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 708 quotes

'War,' says Machiavelli, 'o...

'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince;' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The superfluities of a rich na...

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The ocean is an object of no s...

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

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Water is insipid, inodorous, c...

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.

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True humility-the basis of the...

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Wars are just to those to whom...

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

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The moment you abate anything ...

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

What shadows we are, and what ...

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

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