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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

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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Atheism
Servitude
Freedom
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Superstitions
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Anarchy
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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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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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
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I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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The grand instructor, time.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
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Man is by his constitution a religious animal atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
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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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