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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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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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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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It is the love of the people it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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No men can act with effect who do not act in concert no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
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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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Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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