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It Has All The Contortions Of The Sibyl Without The Inspiration.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Prior's Life of Burke
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edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
Superstition is a religion of feeble minds. -- Edmund Burke
We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
-- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Prior's Life of Burke (1790)...
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- p. 331...
Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body.
On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other....
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332...