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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Customs
Tradition
Everything
Reconciles
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Man is by his constitution a religious animal atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
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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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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
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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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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
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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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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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