Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Quote by Edmund Burke
Topics:
Edmund Burke Quotes
Related Quotes
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law...
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,...
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the...
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...
To innovate is not to reform.
