Quotes by Burke, Edmund

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. >>

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. >>

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their dispo >>

Quotations about Civil Rights

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in per >>

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil r >>

Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the onl >>

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.

Burke, Edmund