Quote #63
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
More from Edmund Burke
- I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
- 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…
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
- 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…
- A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Through a wise and salutary neglect [of the colonies], a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflec…