Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke
There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke
There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot