Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke quote People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke quote A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke quote A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Edmund Burke quote A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke quote All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke quote By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke quote Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
Edmund Burke quote Biography
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