Edmund Burke ( 10 of 111 )
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui read more
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his
having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument,
"What end or object could the party have had in the act with
which he is accused."
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold read more
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
