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Letter "E" » Edmund Burke Quotes
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«To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.»
«Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
civil order, Civil society, Corinthian, graceful, nobility, ornament, polished
«Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.»
«Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
amiss, be amiss, engines, neighbour, on fire, Playing with Fire
«Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.»
«A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.»
«Dangers by being despised grow great»
«The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own»
«A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation»
«If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain»
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