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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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