You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.
Edmund BurkeThere is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Edmund BurkeThe nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund BurkeNever apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Edmund BurkeKings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeThose who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund BurkeAs the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
Edmund BurkeIt is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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