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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Humanity
Justice
Law
Tell
May
Reason
Lawyer
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Ought

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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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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.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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