There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Edmund Burke
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About Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent the majority of his career in Great Britain and was elected as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1766 to 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. His writings played a significant role in influ…
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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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.