01c. 1763 ADThe writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
02c. 1763 AD"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
03c. 1763 ADI am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
05c. 1763 ADThere is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
08c. 1763 ADIn such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
09c. 1763 ADWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
12c. 1763 ADThere 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 world.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
13c. 1763 ADFiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
14c. 1763 ADA people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
17c. 1763 ADThe religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
18c. 1763 ADI do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
20c. 1763 ADAll government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
21c. 1763 ADThe worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
22c. 1763 ADThey made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
23c. 1763 ADPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
24c. 1763 ADYou had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
