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If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.


James Lee Burke

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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;...
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