Edmund Burke Quotes
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.