Quote #55

So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
  2. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to t…
  3. The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another l…
  4. Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields no…
  5. It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to f…
  6. Falsehood has a perennial spring.
  7. A great profusion of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very freq…
  8. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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