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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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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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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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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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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 very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
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Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
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