Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke, Volumen21804 |
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... measure contrary to our safety , that it is our own act . He who does not stay the hand of suicide , is guilty of murder . On our part I say , that to be instructed , is not to be degraded or enslaved . Information is an advantage to us ...
... measure contrary to our safety , that it is our own act . He who does not stay the hand of suicide , is guilty of murder . On our part I say , that to be instructed , is not to be degraded or enslaved . Information is an advantage to us ...
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... measure , making a part of a plan , it is rarely proper to divulge ; all the broader grounds of policy on which the general plan is to be adopted , ought as rarely to be concealed . They who have not the whole cause before them , call ...
... measure , making a part of a plan , it is rarely proper to divulge ; all the broader grounds of policy on which the general plan is to be adopted , ought as rarely to be concealed . They who have not the whole cause before them , call ...
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... measures will not be better than their morals ; such a parliament will give coun- tenance to their measures also , whatever that parlia- ment may pretend , and whatever those measures may be . Every good political institution must have ...
... measures will not be better than their morals ; such a parliament will give coun- tenance to their measures also , whatever that parlia- ment may pretend , and whatever those measures may be . Every good political institution must have ...
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... measure worse than thrown away . It adds infinitely to the strength , and consequently to the demands of the adverse party . He has gained a fundamental point without an equivalent . **** I do not say , that a diplomatic measure ought ...
... measure worse than thrown away . It adds infinitely to the strength , and consequently to the demands of the adverse party . He has gained a fundamental point without an equivalent . **** I do not say , that a diplomatic measure ought ...
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... measure in judging of those great objects than our momentary opinions and desires , is to throw us back upon that very democracy which in this part , our constitution was formed to avoid . NEUTRALS . MEN of no decided character ...
... measure in judging of those great objects than our momentary opinions and desires , is to throw us back upon that very democracy which in this part , our constitution was formed to avoid . NEUTRALS . MEN of no decided character ...
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Página 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Página 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Página 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Página 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Página 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Página 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Página 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Página 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...