Tag: Edmund Burke
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To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke