Edmund Burke's Quote - To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – 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

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