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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Everything
Reconciles
Reconcile
Custom
Customs
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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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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder it loads us more than millions of debt takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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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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