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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.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Dublin city
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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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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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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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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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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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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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