[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. Edmund Burke tyrantsmindheart Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. Edmund Burke passioncondolencessympathy Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. Edmund Burke halfevilyears Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke perseverancesadinspiring It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. Edmund Burke designrealmen All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. Edmund Burke trustpowerideas Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without. Edmund Burke passionmindmen When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be. Edmund Burke hypocritechristianhouse He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates. Edmund Burke aidsunderstandinguse It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. Edmund Burke realheartcharacter There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. Edmund Burke designjudgementdisappointment A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. Edmund Burke hatehatredorder It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke statisticsgreatnessnature All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. Edmund Burke good-manevilmen Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one. Edmund Burke admirationmadehappiness Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature. Edmund Burke decisionmenpast Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke creepsbusinessambition The wisdom of our ancestors. Edmund Burke ancestorwisdom Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Edmund Burke caremenhands Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be. Edmund Burke teachingmenideas
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