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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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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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Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
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The individual is foolish the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
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When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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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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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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