QUOTES by Edmund Burke
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"Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of."
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"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security."
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"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
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"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings."
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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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"Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part."
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
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"It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors."
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"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints."
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"I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases."
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"There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth."
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"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
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"It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design."
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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."
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"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one."
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"There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief."
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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."
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"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites."
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"Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear."
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"Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear."
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"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
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"A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation."
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"For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever"
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"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
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"They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."
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"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."
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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."
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"It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do."
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"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
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