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To innovate is not to reform.

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
Innovation
Innovate
Reformation
Reform

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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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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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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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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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
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