Quote #15
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
More from Edmund Burke
- Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordina…
- The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when…
- 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 be…
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
- Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
- They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.