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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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