Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
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