All Edmund Burke Quotes
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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It 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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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