Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
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"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"
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"All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
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"Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other."
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"A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival."
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"The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."
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"Dangers by being despised grow great."
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"Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
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"A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman."
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"Queen of arts and daughter of heaven."
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"There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear."
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"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation."
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"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
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"The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations."
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"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."
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"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."
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"History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn."
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"Custom reconciles us to everything."
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"I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets."
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