Tag: Edmund Burke
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke
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Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke