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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
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Dublin city
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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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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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement not to compound with our Condition but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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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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Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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