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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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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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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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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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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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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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