Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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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Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.