Quote #91
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More from Edmund Burke
- Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
- There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
- Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt…
- Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
- Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.
- One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.
- In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the …
- An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.