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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

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
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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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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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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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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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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