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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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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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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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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
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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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Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections it changes its object perpetually it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible the latter on small ones and pleasing we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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