3410 quotes by statesmen for you to enjoy

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Eamon de Valera

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. Eamon de Valera

Big Build National Every Could Scheme Industry Years Up Keeping

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night. Eamon de Valera

War Will Thief Come Us Night

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. Eamon de Valera

War World Those Followed Over Course Ready Just Regard Against Them Who Fully Each Aware Set

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Edmund Burke

Sense Community Follow Dress Give General Direction General Sense True Force Effect End Legislature Form Public Sanction Inclination Technical Specific

Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke

Ambition Well Soar Creep

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke

Change State Some Without Means Conservation

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke

Great Part Mere True Economy Essential May Essential Part Expense

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Edmund Burke

Freedom Liberty Possessed Must Limited Order

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke

Love Wise Men Please Given More Than Tax To Love

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Edmund Burke

Tyranny Multitude

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke

Good None Toleration

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke

Guise Religious Piety Mistaken Shield Persecution Itself May

Laws, like houses, lean on one another. Edmund Burke

Legal Laws Like Lean Another Houses

To innovate is not to reform. Edmund Burke

Innovate Reform

The traveller has reached the end of the journey! Edmund Burke

Journey Reached End Traveller

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. Edward Everett

Home Virtue Like Sanctuary

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. Edward Everett

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee. Edward Everett

Lost General Pursuit Had Been Lee Moment

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. Edward Everett

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Beauty Dress Greater Does Appear Luster

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Men Borrow Never Opinions Repay Debts Who

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Thought Long Prisoner Take Him Person May Dwell

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