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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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War is the matter which fills all history and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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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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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
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