Quotes by Edmund Burke

“I compare it to something behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when by an accident, the curtain happens to be opened, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.”

Edmund Burke
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“Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.”

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“Parties must ever exist in a free country.”

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“A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.”

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“Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”

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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

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“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”

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“We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”

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“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.”

Edmund Burke
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