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3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

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

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

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.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

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.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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