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Religion, to have any force up...

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

True religion is the foundatio...

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I despair of ever receiving th...

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

Nothing ought to be more weigh...

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

It is in the relaxation of sec...

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Those who quit their proper ch...

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I do ride contend against the ...

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Expense, and great expense, ma...

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

To be struck with His power, i...

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Refined policy ever has been t...

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The grave is a common treasury...

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Great men are never sufficient...

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

I do not hesitate to say that ...

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

To drive men from independence...

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

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Law and arbitrary power are at...

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

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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

Man is an animal that cooks hi...

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

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It is very rare, indeed, for m...

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

The very name of a politician,...

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

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Nothing, indeed, but the posse...

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

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