Edmund Burke Quotes


To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. - Edmund Burke


To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke


To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. - Edmund Burke


To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. - Edmund Burke


To innovate is not to reform. - Edmund Burke


To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. - Edmund Burke


Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection. - Edmund Burke


Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. - Edmund Burke


Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke


They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. - Edmund Burke


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