Edmund Burke Quotes

Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated France On Her Enjoyment Of A Government (for She Then Had A Government) Without Inquiry What The Nature Of That Government Was, Or How It Was Administered? Can I Now Congratulate The Same Nation Upon Its Freedom? Is It Because Liberty In The Abstract May Be Classed Amongst The Blessings Of Mankind, That I Am Seriously To Felicitate A Mad-man, Who Has Escaped From The Protecting Restraint And Wholesome Darkness Of His Cell, On His Restoration To The Enjoyment Of Light And Liberty? Am I To Congratulate A Highwayman And Murderer, Who Has Broke Prison, Upon The Recovery Of His Natural Rights? This Would Be To Act Over Again The Scene Of The Criminals Condemned To The Galleys, And Their Heroic Deliverer, The Metaphysic Knight Of The Sorrowful Countenance.

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

Edmund Burke Quotes: Abstractedly Speaking, Government, As Well As Liberty, Is Good; Yet Could I, In Common Sense, Ten Years Ago, Have Felicitated

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