| 115 Famous Quotes by Edmund Burke
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“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
Applause Quotes |
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“The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires”
Crime Quotes |
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“Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair”
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“Calamity is man's true touchstone”
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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Evil Quotes |
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“Falsehood is a perennial spring.”
Falsehood Quotes |
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“Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.”
Fraud Quotes |
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“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing”
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“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity”
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“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity”
Infidelity Quotes |
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“I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason”
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“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
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“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors”
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“The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion”
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“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
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“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
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“Turn over a new leaf.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Letter to Miss Haviland
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“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
Learning Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.”
Words Quotes Source: Letter
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“There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his
having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument,
"What end or object could the party have had in the act with
which he is accused."”
Law Quotes Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.”
Law Quotes Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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“A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where
mystery begins, justice ends?”
Law Quotes Source: Vindication of Natural Society
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“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country
churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
Grave Quotes Source: Letter to Matthew Smith
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“It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.”
Comparisons Quotes Source: Prior's Life of Burke
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“The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.”
Past Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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