Author Topic: ~ Edmund Burke Quotes ~ (Read 5298 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:14:46 AM »

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:15:07 AM »

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:15:37 AM »

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:16:04 AM »

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:16:28 AM »

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:16:51 AM »

Sin has many tools but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:17:18 AM »

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:17:42 AM »

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:18:13 AM »

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:18:35 AM »

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:18:57 AM »

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:19:19 AM »

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:19:41 AM »

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:20:03 AM »

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** May 29, 2014, 09:20:25 AM »

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

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