Quotes By Author: Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”[Preface to Brissot’s Address to His Constituents (1794)]”

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Tag: arrogance, judgment, knowledge, omniscience, pomposity, preface-to-brissot-s-address, presumption, ridicule, truth,
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