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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
History
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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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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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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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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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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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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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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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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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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