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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke -
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke -
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke -
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke -
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke -
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke -
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke -
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke -
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke -
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke -
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke -
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke -
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke -
The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke -
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke -
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke -
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke