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Edmund Burke Quotes about Politics

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Collected in Three Volumes".

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.52, Cambridge University Press