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Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Perfection
Virtue
Society
Science
Art
Contract
Every
Partnership
Contracts
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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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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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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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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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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