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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
By Edmund Burke
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
By Edmund Burke
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
By Edmund Burke
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
By Edmund Burke
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.
By Edmund Burke
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
By Edmund Burke
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
By Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare
By Edmund Burke
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
By Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed
By Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
By Edmund Burke
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
By Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
By Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
By Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
By Edmund Burke
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
By Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
By Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper
By Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
By Edmund Burke
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
By Edmund Burke