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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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
Equity
Dynamic
Debt
Money
Static

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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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Continue to instruct the world and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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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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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
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Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
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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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