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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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But 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. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce som..
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Edmund Burke |
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Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom? Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriousl..
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Edmund Burke |
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I should therefore suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France, until I was informed how it had been combined with government; with public force; with the discipline and obedience of armies; with the collection of an effective and well-distributed revenue; with morality and religion; with the solidity of property; with peace and order; with civil and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things too; and, without them..
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Edmund Burke |
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What has been said of the Roman empire, is at least as true of the British constitution--"This mighty structure has come together thanks to eight hundred years of good fortune and discipline, which cannot be uprooted without destroying the uprooters." This British constitution has not been struck out at an heat by a set of presumptuous men, like the assembly of pettifoggers run mad in Paris. 'Tis not the hasty product of a day, But the we..
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Edmund Burke |
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Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
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Edmund Burke |
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The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
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Edmund Burke |
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Edmund Burke |
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Custom reconciles us to every thing.
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Edmund Burke |
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Edmund Burke |
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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Edmund Burke |
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Edmund Burke |
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Illustrious predecessor.
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Edmund Burke |
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Edmund Burke |
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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Edmund Burke |
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Falsehood has a perennial spring.
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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.
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Edmund Burke |
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Edmund Burke |
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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Edmund Burke |
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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Edmund Burke |
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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Edmund Burke |
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Edmund Burke |
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Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.
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Edmund Burke |
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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Edmund Burke |
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Edmund Burke |
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Edmund Burke |
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Edmund Burke |
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Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.
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Edmund Burke |
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Edmund Burke |
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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Edmund Burke |
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Edmund Burke |
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.
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Edmund Burke |
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Edmund Burke |
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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Edmund Burke |
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
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Edmund Burke |
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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Edmund Burke |
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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Edmund Burke |
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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Edmund Burke |
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Nothing is so fatal to Religion as indifference which is, at least, half Infidelity.
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Edmund Burke |
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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Edmund Burke |
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Edmund Burke |
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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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Edmund Burke |
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Edmund Burke |
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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