Quote #149

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
  2. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
  3. When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of…
  4. All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason i…
  5. Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it…
  6. Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
  7. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers d…
  8. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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