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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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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Dublin city
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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