Tag: Edmund Burke
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Edmund Burke
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Edmund Burke
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke