Tag: Edmund Burke
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund Burke
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke