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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
Innovate
Reformation
Reform
Innovation

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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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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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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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The grand instructor, time.
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Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
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