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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
By Edmund Burke
Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind.
By Edmund Burke
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
By Edmund Burke
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.
By Edmund Burke
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
By Edmund Burke
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
By Edmund Burke
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
By Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent
By Edmund Burke
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
By Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
By Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.
By Edmund Burke
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
By Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
By Edmund Burke
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.
By Edmund Burke
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
By Edmund Burke