Edmund Burke ( 10 of 111 )
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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.
It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative read more
It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is read more
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence
of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
