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Letter "E" » Edmund Burke Quotes
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«The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.»
«Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.»
«Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
beneficial, discriminating, give in, noxious
«The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.»
«A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.»
«Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.»
«Laws, like houses, lean on one another.»
«Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.»
«In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.»
«If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.»
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