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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
Revolution
Opinion
Moral
Important
Revolutions
Sentiments
Manners
Opinions

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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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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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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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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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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made 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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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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