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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
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Dublin city
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Revolutions
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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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 writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
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The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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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 is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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