No, I’m a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I’ve never hit the juice.


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EDMUND BURKE
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
EDMUND BURKE
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
EDMUND BURKE
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE
Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
BILLIE BURKE
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
BILLIE BURKE
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE
Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
EDMUND BURKE
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
EDMUND BURKE
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
EDMUND BURKE
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much ...
EDMUND BURKE
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE
Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE