Famous Quotes from ...
Edmund Burke
- If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.... Edmund Burke {view}
- I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.... Edmund Burke {view}
- Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.... Edmund Burke {view}
- Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.... Edmund Burke {view}
- History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.... Edmund Burke {view}
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.... Edmund Burke {view}
- 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.... Edmund Burke {view}
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing... Edmund Burke {view}
- What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint.Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their dispositionto put moral chains upon their own appetites.... Edmund Burke {view}
- The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success... Edmund Burke {view}
- Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state... Edmund Burke {view}
- `Not men but measures'; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.... Edmund Burke {view}