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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
Manners
Opinions
Revolution
Opinion
Moral
Important
Revolutions
Sentiments

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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
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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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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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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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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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