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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
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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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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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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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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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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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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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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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