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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

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
License
Liberty
Wisdom
Without

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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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A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
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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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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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