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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Statesman
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
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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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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
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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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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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