Edmund Burke ( 10 of 111 )
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with stories of read more
Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth
manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal
to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the
world.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way,
ought to give us ground to presume ability.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with read more
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone read more
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle read more
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.