Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
- Life
- 1729-1797
- Occupations
- politician, philosopher, writer
- Notable works
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke