Quote #92
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
More from Edmund Burke
- They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
- Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
- Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
- One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.
- Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt…
- An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
- Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.
- Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.