A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.


Edmund Burke

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our help...
EDMUND BURKE
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
BIBLE
I know a lot of things about what people say about Judge Burke, and I know how he is. I get along wi...
JOHN BRYSON
The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kin...
CHLOE THURLOW
He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the ...
REBECCA LOOS
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN
Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never ma...
JOHN LUBBOCK
I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.
CEDRIC NYE
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Howard was a truly evil man. He is the worst sex offender I have ever dealt with,
COLIN MURRAY
I would be curious and cautious about what that would entail.
SAFA RASHTCHY
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
ROBERT HEINLEIN
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. ...
MARY HARRIS JONES
I wish your father were alive, and king-in-waiting. And I his right-hand man still. He would be tell...
HOBB, ROBIN
(Davis) tried to overthrow a breaking ball (to Burke) and he hung it.
NED YOST
It's a policy decision on how cautious we want our witnesses to be.
GARY WELLS
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
DAVY CROCKETT
These kids are very impressionable. Knowing that, we have to be very conscientious of how we act.
JEANA STUDER
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
MARAT SAFIN
It would be worrisome should foreign investors adopt a cautious stance next month.
ALEX HUANG
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of th...
JEAN BAPTISTE LEGOUVE
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or consci...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
BIBLE
Coming up with the weather system for a world is fun. We've talked about how cool would it be when y...
JEFF KAPLAN
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS
He dealt with it, even though he knew it was going to be a tough go.
DAVID GANEY
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No man really knows how to live if he did, he would never die.
VIKRANT PARSAI
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
RUSSEL HONORE
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a tho...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
He is a person we have dealt with in the past.
JOE HALL
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
TURKISH PROVERB
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb
TURKISH PROVERB
I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related,...
ANDREA MACKRIS
You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You coul...
JACK MCBRAYER
He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Shortly after the new CBA was announced, Sean Burke was the goaltender we identified as we began for...
JAY FEASTER
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
CASSANDRA CLARE
He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea...
CASSANDRA CLARE
If a common man like myself follows those in government , he would be thrown in jail.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
ALEXANDER POPE
The trainer recommended he didn't play today just to be cautious.
PETE MACKANIN
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
LORD KELVIN
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he wou...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No ma...
J.D. ROBB
I have never really wanted my teammates to see me as a ball hog. I tried to be a team player and be ...
ASHLEY HILTON
I would just say to be cautious, no matter what kind of water.
RON YODA
Shortly after the new CBA was announced, Sean Burke was the goaltender we identified as we began for...
JAY FEASTER
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...
JOE BIDEN
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho...
BLAISE PASCAL
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he woul...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
He's of ill health, and I really think that his health situation would be better dealt with and stab...
FLETCHER LONG
I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away fr...
JEFF GARCIA
I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY
It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The FDA is a cautious regulatory body, and they need to be cautious.
DR. CATHERINE BIRNDORF
He was always very cautious. Every morning he would tell his wife, 'God bless you,' before he left t...
LILA MUNCY
I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a ...
PATTI STANGER
Folks who enjoy national parks tend to be environmentally conscientious. So how can we serve seafood...
DOUG BRADLEY
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
LAURENCE J. PETER
It’s like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a fea...
COLLEEN HOUCK
He will be fine. If we had to play today, he would play. We are just trying to be cautious and make ...
CHRIS LOWERY
How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, a...
MARTIN BUBER
Be pure, live a conscientious life, defend your dignity and be loving to others.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
He was conservative in the old-fashioned sense of cautious.
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN
If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance
MARK TWAIN
I love Delta Burke!
BROOKE ELLIOTT
Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
We ask drivers to be extremely cautious in terms of how attentive they are to all that is going on a...
HOWARD PAYNE
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant...
DANIEL BOULUD
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
How he (Elian) would feel suddenly being put in the arms of a stranger; what would he think, how fri...
JANET RENO
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed...
BERTHA VON SUTTNER
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt wi...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
CORMAC MCCARTHY
If Robert Blake got in his car after his wife was killed he would have blood on him. (Blake) had no ...
ERIC DUBIN
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was m...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH
I asked him about it when we were together a couple of weeks ago. He's always been apprehensive, hav...
GEORGE MARTIN
Looking at everyone and how it's going, everyone's going crazy about it, ... You can't be too cautio...
CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy thro...
JAMES WILCOX
Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
I didn't know how good of a singer he would be.
JULIAN JARROLD
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hel...
TONY LA RUSSA
respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.
COLLEEN HOOVER
The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.
JEPH LOEB
A real man can see your problems & accept you for them; if he really cared, he would help you to the...
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD

More Edmund Burke

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE
The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
EDMUND BURKE
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat...
EDMUND BURKE
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
EDMUND BURKE
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
EDMUND BURKE
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
EDMUND BURKE
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existi...
EDMUND BURKE
Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
EDMUND BURKE
Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superio...
EDMUND BURKE
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems...
EDMUND BURKE
I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maint...
EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these ...
EDMUND BURKE
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the p...
EDMUND BURKE
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but...
EDMUND BURKE
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the m...
EDMUND BURKE
Education is the cheap defence of nations.
EDMUND BURKE
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
EDMUND BURKE
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
EDMUND BURKE
Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...
EDMUND BURKE
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell ...
EDMUND BURKE
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EDMUND BURKE
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
EDMUND BURKE
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
EDMUND BURKE
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE
Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
EDMUND BURKE
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
EDMUND BURKE
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
EDMUND BURKE
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much ...
EDMUND BURKE
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE
Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gre...
EDMUND BURKE
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
EDMUND BURKE
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE
Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE
The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE
Calamity is man's true touchstone
EDMUND BURKE
Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
EDMUND BURKE
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
EDMUND BURKE
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
EDMUND BURKE
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
EDMUND BURKE
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE