All Edmund Burke Quotes
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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