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Age of Enlightenment37 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke · 1784By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke · 1790There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. — Jonathan Swift · 1738Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old. — Jonathan Swift · 1727All 37 quotes →American Revolutionary Period3 quotes
Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke · 1775The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. — Edmund Burke · 1775Colonial America1 quote
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley · 1750