Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
Edmund Burke
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
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EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example
FRED HOYLE Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our help...
EDMUND BURKE Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Teach people at the school of example and the lessons learnt will never be forgotten
FAISAL KHOSA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
MARK TWAIN Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They (Maryville High School) have playing and practice venues all across the city. For example, base...
JOE BLACK Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when...
LYSANDER SPOONER Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our No. 1 goal is for the athletes to learn about speed and quickness. Hopefully they'll leave track...
BRIAN SIMPSON That No. 15 (Burke) is as good of a running quarterback as we've ever seen.
JACK CRUMBLISS People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But...
ED BEGLEY, JR. Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an e...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Oftentimes families will adopt two kittens, as they entertain each other while they are at work or t...
MARCIA STEWART Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and tal...
MIKE BARNICLE The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear...
HARUKI MURAKAMI At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
EWAN MCGREGOR If we brought mentors in it would help us. I think it will give kids a chance to learn more than the...
KRISTA SPINDLER If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education s...
EDDIE GRIFFIN When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is pol...
JAMES R. CLAPPER One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an...
GLORIA STEINEM In talking with Ulysses Reed, superintendent of the Marvell School, we discussed keeping the element...
DON HAMILTON Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education...
ABHIJIT NASKAR African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced ...
TRACIE THOMS There's no way . . . it will fly, ... The school district is going to have its highest tax increase ...
ERIC TURNER The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT Winner is a prime example of the school-to-prison pipeline trend.
CATHERINE KIM Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme examp...
IMRE KERTESZ I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.
ADAM SMITH There's one thing you can't learn in a segregated school as a minority. You can't learn to operate i...
GARY ORFIELD Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be...
MICHAEL N. CASTLE No other state has learn and earn.
DAVID HOPCRAFT Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. T...
MAX BEERBOHM This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY May you be of service to mankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT They said no one would answer at the high school because they'd been evacuated to the middle school.
ANN FIELDS There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to ...
WILLIAM LAW It's not because we don't like them. Back there they can learn by example.
DAWN MARIE ANGUS What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE We challenged them at both ends, we just had too many turnovers. We just couldn't control the ball. ...
CHARLES MCKNIGHT They will have sophisticated detection devices -- for example, for biological weapons that can take ...
JONATHAN TUCKER Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edm...
C.S. LEWIS The Manteo Middle School swim team has to practice at the Elizabethan Inn swimming pool at a pretty ...
DEBBIE GIBBS Many people suffer in life due to ignorance or not having the right knowledge. They even don't know ...
ARVIND MEHTA Winner is a prime example of the national school-to-prison trend. Minority students are being pushed...
CATHERINE KIM They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
BEN JONSON They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast i...
BEN JONSON 'Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak...
JOHN SELDEN And there will be a lot of other amenities that will allow ourselves to market to that demographic -...
JOE LEONE ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of ...
NORTON JUSTER We've had a long, successful history of working with the school district and this is one more exampl...
GREG FOX Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.
PETER V. BRETT I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
CASSANDRA CLARE They said there's no more space at the school, would you consider renting?
COLLEEN KENNEDY Not a lot of students get to travel to other countries. This will help to broaden their horizons a l...
ANTONETTE DUES One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l...
BART D. EHRMAN Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.
JACK ABRAHAM Life is the Green nature that accommodate the Tigers, Zebras, lions, field, Animals and Mankind.
Let...
CHARITY RAPHAEL This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON The kids will have six (daytime) dress rehearsals for school audiences during the week and three wee...
KAREN MEYER First and foremost, it's paramount for young child to learn how to swim, and the best place for ...
SOPHIE PASCOE Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Thro...
WILL DURANT A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, ...
PARIS JACKSON I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or coll...
OSCAR ROBERTSON The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m...
WALTER BAGEHOT Minority teachers act as cultural interpreters for the entire school community. As you increase the ...
DENISE LEE Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
K.R. ROYAL I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 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 This is going to take a lot of teacher training. We don't have a lot of high school teachers that te...
DANIEL COLLINS Presumably this will only work when listening to music. Ideally you want to transfer the skill so th...
DEREK JOHNSTON If we can learn to love one another and lift each other up, then we will not fall, no matter the ass...
HEATHER ANASTASIU When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced -- fo...
ANN BOECKMAN We look forward to the positive impact the new arena will have on both our recruiting and our abilit...
BILL ROWE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vo...
BOBBY SCOTT When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything othe...
JOHNNY DEPP Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to expre...
JOSHUA BELL Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they ...
ALISON GOPNIK Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of kn...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Countless the various species of mankind,
Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;
...
WILLIAM GIFFORD From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
DAVID TUVILL I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
MARK TWAIN Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one ...
GEORGE WEAH What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship b...
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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.
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EDMUND BURKE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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 A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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 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.
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