Edmund Burke
English politician and philosopher
Lived from: 1729 - 1797
Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 12 january 1729 Died: 9 july 1797
Quotes 81 till 100 of 111.
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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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 of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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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.
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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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