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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
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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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.
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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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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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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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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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