What did Edmund Burke mean by: Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland Copy
+ Custom reconciles us to everything. Author, October 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Edmund Burke, Acceptance, Adaptation, Conformity, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edmund Burke, Natural, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edmund Burke, Continuity, Legacy, Responsibility, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edmund Burke, Credulity, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Edmund Burke, Boldness, Perplexity, Wisdom, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Edmund Burke, People, Resistance, War, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. Author, July 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Edmund Burke, Conflict, Confusion, Morality, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
+ A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edmund Burke, Conflict, Miscommunication, Misunderstanding, 0 Edmund Burke Statesman · Ireland
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
