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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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
Enemy
Evil
Good
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To innovate is not to reform.
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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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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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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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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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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
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