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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

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
Moral
Important
Revolutions
Sentiments
Manners
Opinions
Revolution
Opinion

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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
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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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Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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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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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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