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

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  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

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  Revenge, Ambition, Pride

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.161

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• All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

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  People, Darkness, Succeed

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

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  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

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  Air, Law, Uniforms

  "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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  Inspirational, Family, Memories

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

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  Language, Speak, Virtue

  Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

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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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  Inspirational, Friendship, Change

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

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• Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

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  Power, Political, Term Limits

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• Those who attempt to level never equalize

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  Levels

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

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  Power, Government, Law

  Letter to Charles James Fox, 8 October 1777, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 3 (1961)

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Health

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

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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  Flattery, Giver, Flattering

  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.9

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• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

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• Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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  Struggle, Greatness, Men

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.164

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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.386

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

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  Time, Smart, Inspiration

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

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• What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

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  Real, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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  Education, Defense, Nations

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• Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

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  Men, Thinking, Design

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 59

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• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

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  Independence, Psychological, Anxious

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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  Inspiring, Sad, Perseverance

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• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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  Events, Statistics, Scandal

  Speech, 5 May 1789, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 2, p. 109

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