Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them
Quote by Edmund Burke
Topics:
Politics Quotes
Related Quotes
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of...
The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set...
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
The march of the human mind is slow.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes,...
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little...
Patience will achieve more than force.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is...
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...
So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have...
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the...
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity...
