Quote #62

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
  2. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  3. 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…
  4. Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; ye…
  5. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
  6. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
  7. Falsehood has a perennial spring.
  8. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

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