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Responsibility prevents crimes.

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
Responsibility
Prevents
Crimes
Prison
Crime

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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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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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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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