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Surely the church is a place w...

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The tribunal of conscience exi...

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Contempt is not a thing to be ...

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The perfection of conversation...

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Is it in destroying and pullin...

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Curiosity is the most superfic...

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I cannot help concurring with ...

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Old religious factions are vol...

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

A speculative despair is unpar...

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

There are circumstances in whi...

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Despots govern by terror. They...

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Men love to hear of their powe...

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The moment that government app...

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Taste and elegance, though the...

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Religion is among the most pow...

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The esteem of wise and good me...

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Men are as much blinded by the...

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Flattery corrupts both the rec...

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Flattery is no more than what ...

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Futurity is the great concern ...

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

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