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• The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

  Edmund Burke

  Success, Mind, Criteria

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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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• Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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  Debt, Static, Equity

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• This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

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  Taken, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.203

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

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  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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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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  Wisdom, Equality, Law

  Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

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  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

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  War, Total War

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke, 1790.

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• I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

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  Men, Mind, Littles

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.7

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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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  Passion, Character, Men

  Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64

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• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

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• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The grand instructor, time.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Instructors

  Edmund Burke (1856). “The Works of the R.H. Edmund Burke”, p.57

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• Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

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  Religious, Animal, Men

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 135.

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• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

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  Mother, Fear, Motherhood

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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  Agreement, Political, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

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  Treasure, Ancestor, Remembered

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• Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

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  Power, Law, Arbitrary

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.479, Transaction Publishers

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• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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  Law, Justice, Humanity

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

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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• The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

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  Order, Government, Liberty

  "The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

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• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

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  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

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  Dog, Animal, Creation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Works”, p.130

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