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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

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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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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