Edmund Burke Quotes about Abuse

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I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

Edmund Burke

Ambition, Thinking, Abuse

Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Edmund Burke

Abuse, Protection, Reverence

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

Edmund Burke Quotes about Abuse

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