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Edmund Burke Quotes

«It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact»
«There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the worl»
«And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them»
«Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits»
«I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.»
«We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.»
«`Not men but measures'; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.»
«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.»
«Man is by his constitution a religious animal.»
«Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.»
Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | Keywords: truest