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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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He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
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I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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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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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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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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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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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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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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