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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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Revolutions
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
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