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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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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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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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I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .
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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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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The individual is foolish the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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