Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when...

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;...

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical...

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...