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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible the latter on small ones and pleasing we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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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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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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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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Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
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Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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