All Edmund Burke Quotes
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
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Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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