Quotes by Burke, Edmund

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to >>

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new composition >>

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. >>

Quotations about Elections

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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. >>

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.

Burke, Edmund