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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
Edmund Burke
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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
Satisfies
Quickly
Pleasure
Every
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When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
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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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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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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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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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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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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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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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