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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.


Edmund Burke

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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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