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• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

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  Country, War, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.49

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• Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

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  Humble, Men, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.231

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

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  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

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  Men, Age, Casting

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• Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

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  Freedom, Lovers, Depends

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.134

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• The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

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  Party, Government, Tables

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.120

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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

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  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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• Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

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  Passion, History, Prejudice

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.340

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

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  Life, Nurse, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

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  Men, Knavery, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3673, Delphi Classics

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• Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

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  Wise, Men, Mad

  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.153

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• Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

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  Men, Confusion, Mind

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

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• To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

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  Responsibility, Power, Agreement

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• Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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  Parent, Revolution, Nursery

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 38

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• Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

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  Sky, Soul, Larks

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

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• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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  Freedom, Law, House

  'A Tract on the Popery Laws' (planned c.1765) ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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  Drawing, People, Method

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

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• The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

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  Real, Practice, Political

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

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  Party, Men, Body

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

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• I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

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  Country, Sleep, Southern

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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  Journey, Dhammapada, Ends

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• Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

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  Pride, Thinking, Order

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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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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  Order, Society, Aristocracy

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205

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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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  Mind, Together, Politics

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

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  Prison, Crime, Capable

  "Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 and the Period of His Decease, in 1797".

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