01c. 1763 ADIt is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
02c. 1763 ADThe unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
05c. 1763 ADKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
06c. 1763 ADLearning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
07c. 1763 ADBecause half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
08c. 1763 ADIn their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
09c. 1763 ADThe men of England,—the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
10c. 1763 ADHe that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
11c. 1763 ADTo execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
14c. 1763 ADAnd having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
15c. 1763 ADAll men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
16c. 1763 ADAll those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
21c. 1763 ADI would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
23c. 1763 ADHe was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
24c. 1763 ADBetter to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
