Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
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"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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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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"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
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"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
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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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"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
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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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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
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"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"
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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
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"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
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