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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
By Edmund Burke
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
By Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
By Edmund Burke
Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
By Edmund Burke
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
By Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation
By Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
By Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
By Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
By Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little
By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
By Edmund Burke