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Responsibility prevents crimes.

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Prevents
Crimes
Prison
Crime
Responsibility

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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
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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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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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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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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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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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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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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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The grand instructor, time.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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