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Letter "E" » Edmund Burke Quotes
«When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
auction, bidder, bidders, construction, flatterers, guides, legislators
«The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
calculations, employ, exactness, financier, financiers, foundations, impose, instance, obliges, proceedings, revenue, solidity
«Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.»
«The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.»
«A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.»
«Ambition can creep as well as soar.»
«Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.»
«We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.»
«It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.»
«Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.»
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