We must all obey the great law of change. It is th... -Edmund Burke

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke , Statesman
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Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, philosopher, and political theorist. He is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism and was known for his influential writings on political and social issues during the 18th century.

Edmund Burke Quotes to Explore

Good order is the foundation of all things....
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair....
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!...
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people....
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men....
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle....
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing....
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls....
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 most to ho...
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent....

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities....
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic....