Author

Edmund Burke

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“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”— Edmund Burke
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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke
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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”— Edmund Burke
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“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”— Edmund Burke
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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.”— Edmund Burke
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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”— Edmund Burke
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“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”— Edmund Burke
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“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”— Edmund Burke
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”— Edmund Burke
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“You can never plan the future by the past.”— Edmund Burke
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“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”— Edmund Burke
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”— Edmund Burke
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“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”— Edmund Burke
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“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”— Edmund Burke
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“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”— Edmund Burke
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“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”— Edmund Burke
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“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”— Edmund Burke
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“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke
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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”— Edmund Burke
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”— Edmund Burke
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“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”— Edmund Burke
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“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”— Edmund Burke
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“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”— Edmund Burke
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“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”— Edmund Burke
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“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”— Edmund Burke