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Edmund Burke

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

-Edmund Burke

age

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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age

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

-Edmund Burke

art

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

-Edmund Burke

art

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

-Edmund Burke

beauty

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

-Edmund Burke

beauty

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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business

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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change

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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change

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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education

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

-Edmund Burke

fear

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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food

You can never plan the future by the past.

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future

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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god

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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good

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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good

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

-Edmund Burke

good

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

-Edmund Burke

good

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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government

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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government

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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great

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

-Edmund Burke

great

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

-Edmund Burke

great

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

-Edmund Burke

great

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

-Edmund Burke

great

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

-Edmund Burke

great

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

-Edmund Burke

happiness

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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health

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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history

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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hope

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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imagination

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-Edmund Burke

men

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

-Edmund Burke

men

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

-Edmund Burke

men

Edmund Burke

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

You can never plan the future by the past.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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