128 Quotations by Edmund Burke
- 81. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- 82. Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
- 83. Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
- 84. Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne ...
- 85. Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
- 86. Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
- 87. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- 88. Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
- 89. The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
- 90. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
- 91. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w ...
- 92. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- 93. The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom ...
- 94. The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
- 95. The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- 96. The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ ...
- 97. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- 98. The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
- 99. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- 100. The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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