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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke -
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Edmund Burke -
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke -
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke -
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
Edmund Burke -
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke -
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke -
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke -
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund Burke -
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke -
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke -
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
Edmund Burke -
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke -
Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke -
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
Edmund Burke
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke -
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke -
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke -
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke