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• Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Essentials, Saving, May

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• To innovate is not to reform.

  Edmund Burke

  Innovation, Reform, Reformation

  A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

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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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  Perfection, Religion, World

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.232

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• In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

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  Government, People, Form

  'A Tract on the Popery Laws' ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

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  Men, Mad, Wicked

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.259

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• Ambition can creep as well as soar.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, Ambition, Creeps

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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  Justice, Trade, Free Trade

  "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" by Edmund Burke, 1795.

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• The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

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  Stars, Lying, Views

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.154

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• The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

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  Government, Excellence, May

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• If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

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  Thinking, Government, Judging

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.321

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• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.

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  Interesting, Ancestry, Weakness

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.51, CUP Archive

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• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

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  Heart, Tyrants, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.581, Transaction Publishers

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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

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  Tradition, Reconcile, Customs

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18

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• Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

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  Years, Hypocrisy, Together

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.149

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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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  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

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  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Art

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• Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

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  Sympathy, Condolences, Passion

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

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  Riches, Limits, Frugality

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• An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

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  Beauty, Essentials, Fragility

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

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• There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

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  Men, Empathy, Feelings

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.76, Delphi Classics

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• Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

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  Gambling, Principles, Human Nature

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• Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

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  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

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  Distance, Snuff, Breeze

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

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  Wisdom, Mind, Stronger

  "On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord".

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