I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations. Edmund Burke prejudice passion history The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! Edmund Burke grace nurse life No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. Edmund Burke injustice pawns men The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done. Edmund Burke wish men years The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke concessions weakness fear In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. Edmund Burke eye military art Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above. Edmund Burke mind doe men Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. Edmund Burke crafts voice reason Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. Edmund Burke engagement duty matter I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself. Edmund Burke proportion election effort Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. Edmund Burke gentleman kings may It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. Edmund Burke army government attachment A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. Edmund Burke practice evil may Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. Edmund Burke revolt talent country A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. Edmund Burke definitions may littles Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica. Edmund Burke The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man. Edmund Burke support law men Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. Edmund Burke religious animal men Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Edmund Burke possessed liberty order That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. Edmund Burke thrones mystery causes
