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

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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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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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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