Quotes about Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of...

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from...

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles,...

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