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Quotes from Letters On a Regicide Peace — Edmund Burke

1729–1797 Ireland

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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

A great revolution is on the point of being accomplished. It is a revolution not in human affairs, but in man himself.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

We have an enemy, to whose virtues we can owe nothing; but on this occasion we are infinitely obliged to one of his vices. We owe more to his insolence than to our own precaution.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

...out of the tomb of the murdered Monarchy in France, has arisen a vast, tremendous, unformed spectre, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination and subdued the fortitude of man.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

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