46 quotes by Edmund Burke

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” — Edmund Burke

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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” — Edmund Burke

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“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.” — Edmund Burke

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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — 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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“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.” — Edmund Burke

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“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” — Edmund Burke

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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” — Edmund Burke

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“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.” — Edmund Burke

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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke

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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.” — Edmund Burke

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“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.” — Edmund Burke

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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” — Edmund Burke

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“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” — Edmund Burke

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“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.” — Edmund Burke

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“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.” — Edmund Burke

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“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.” — Edmund Burke

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“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” — Edmund Burke

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