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Edmund Burke


Irish
January 12, 1729
Statesman
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To innovate is not to reform.


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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.


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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.


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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.


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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.


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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.


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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.


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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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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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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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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.
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Tags: People Will Make