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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Edmund Burke

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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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