"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice." ~Edmund Burke
"All that is needed for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke
"Beauty is the promise of happiness." ~Edmund Burke
"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." ~Edmund Burke
"Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free." ~Edmund Burke
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." ~Edmund Burke on Example
"Good order is the foundation of all things." ~Edmund Burke
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." ~Edmund Burke
“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.” ~Edmund Burke on Law
"In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute." ~Edmund Burke
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." ~Edmund Burke
"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair." ~Edmund Burke
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." ~Edmund Burke
"Patience will achieve more than force." ~Edmund Burke
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." ~from "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) by Edmund Burke
"The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is -- that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles for immortality." ~Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England on this day in 1797 (aged 68).
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Political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England on this day in 1797 (aged 68).
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