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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

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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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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
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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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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 ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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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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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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