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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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History
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Pact
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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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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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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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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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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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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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The grand instructor, time.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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