Tag: Edmund Burke
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke