Edmund Burke ( 10 of 111 )
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is read more
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the
nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be
a king. However, a political read more
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be
a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely
such, is a great trust.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
