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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
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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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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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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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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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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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