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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
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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War is the matter which fills all history and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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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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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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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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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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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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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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