More from Edmund Burke

  1. You can never plan the future by the past.
  2. 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 wi…
  3. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
  4. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
  5. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
  6. So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
  7. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  8. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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