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Edmund Burke Quotes

«It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.»
«The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny»
«Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart»
«There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Ability | Keywords: for good
«People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors»
«The march of the human mind is slow»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Mind
«I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Misfortune, Pain | Keywords: small one
«Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security»
«Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.»
«Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity»

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