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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Infinity
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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Responsibility prevents crimes.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.
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The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
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