You're wrestling good kids all the time if you're from Stoughton or Mineral Point.


Greg Burke

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Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
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If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magi...
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He's wrestling well. Both those kids (he beat) are pretty good.
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I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
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Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag ...
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That felt great. From then on, I could just sit back and enjoy the kids wrestling.
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The gesture was there, but it's like wrestling, ... They do all kinds of stuff and there's kids in t...
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Our kids are really wrestling well. We are hoping for more of the same for the final.
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RYAN KARDASH
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
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He's been a great tribute to East Marshall wrestling from the little kids on up to the high school. ...
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Wrestling is a busy, busy sport. You really don't have enough time to do anything. Sometimes, though...
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That's fine. Greg McDermott is a good coach. And Greg McDermott had nothing to do with the situation...
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The kids get excited about wrestling in their own gym.
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The kids are wrestling tough. This is a fun one.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Sta...
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The scientist in me makes it my preference that you try one variable or supplement at a time for eac...
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He has a great feel for wrestling. He's one of the young kids who demonstrates leadership.
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You're not going to find three kids like Jeff, Greg and Adam within one program.
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I was ready to get on the field but I was behind some veterans at the time. It was a good experience...
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Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen ...
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We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
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Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.
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Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
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Wrestling has kind of consumed me. It's just something I do all of the time. It's just me on the mat...
ANTHONY DOTSON
We're professional, but not big time. We're like the minor league of wrestling.
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It's my senior year. I'm going out and wrestling like it's my last match every time.
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He's coming along big-time. He's wrestling more and more aggressively.
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I knew I had to take better shots. I was wrestling real poorly the first time (I faced him) so I kne...
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Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business?...
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If you can handle the time, it's great. But it's tough on the families. You have one or two kids, yo...
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The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know,...
CHARLES DUHIGG
work with our kids all the time, talking about making good decisions. We will always do that.
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Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," As...
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JOHN CENA
If rich & have kids learn to isolate your riches from your unwise kids or else it may destroy them.
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Dos Anjos, his wrestling and grappling is supposed to be good, but I feel my Jiu Jitsu, wrestling an...
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This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
FRAN TARKENTON
If you don?t fly them all the time, what?s the point of having them?
LARRY DICKERSON
I love Delta Burke!
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BOB CHAVEZ
After all what's the lesson from all that?
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Sometimes the title hasn't anything t...
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Greg has indicated that we all had the same first choice,
DANIEL MURPHY
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We have probably the three most solid lines in the league. All three can score a lot of goals. And t...
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This is a good group of kids. They hustle all the time. They are very fired up about the season.
MATT BALLARD
If you think about dynasties or traditions —Oklahoma State is close to the top as far as wrestling...
JOHN SMITH
You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's a...
STURGILL SIMPSON
I thought Greg did a very good job of taking the ball and showing leadership.
BILLY LANGE
We have good help. Kids from all over the country say this is the best part of their trip.
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The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado...
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You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of ...
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I lost a good friend here six years ago and this means a lot to all of us who were friends of Greg M...
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When me and Greg go off, it's all about sex.
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Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
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She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
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What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
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The balance of power.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
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All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
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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.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
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Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I...
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
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Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
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To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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Education is the cheap defence of nations.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE
Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
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Good order is the foundation of all great things.
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
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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 key to why things change is the key to everything.
JAMES BURKE
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
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It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
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Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH 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...
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE 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...
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One canno...
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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
When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES 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