Quote

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Edmund Burke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Business
Projectors
Contrive
Compositions
Taxing
Taxation
Composition
Add
Bungler
Easy
Projector

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Edmund Burke
Image
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
Edmund Burke
Image
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
Edmund Burke
Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
Edmund Burke
Image
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
Edmund Burke
Image
Turn over a new leaf.
Edmund Burke
Image
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
Edmund Burke
Image
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke
Image
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
Image
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke
Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Edmund Burke
Image
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke
Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
Image
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
Edmund Burke
Image
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Image
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
Image
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund Burke