Quote #58

Falsehood has a perennial spring.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. 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…
  2. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
  3. 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…
  4. He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which i…
  5. So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
  6. It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
  7. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
  8. I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

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