Quotes about Edmund Burke

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he...

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Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views....

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard...

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

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