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• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

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  Trust, Power, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.496

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• Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

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  Mean, Human Nature, Reason

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.52

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• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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  Indifference

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.41

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• Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

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  Men, Benefits, Conservative

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.335

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• There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."

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  Party, Law, Jurisprudence

  Edmund Burke's speech on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, May 30, 1794.

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• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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  Tyrants, Tyranny, Multitudes

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

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• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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  Nature, Greatness, Statistics

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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• For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

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  Teaching, Barren, Investigation

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

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  Wisdom, Liberty, License

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• I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

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  Government, Democracy, Helping

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

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  Greatness, Long, Dominion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

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  Order, Foundation, Organize

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• Turn over a new leaf.

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  Leafs, Turns

  James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.422

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

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  Saving, Judgment, Virtue

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

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  Training, Heroic, Mundane

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• Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

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  Art, Partnership, Born

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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  Religious, Atheism, Zealous

  Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

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• There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

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  Mean, World, Moral

  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.226

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

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  Important, Revolution, Opinion

  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.119

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• Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

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  Character, Power, Men

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3876, Delphi Classics

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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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  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  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.230

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• Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

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  Men, Misery, Prosperity

  Edmund Burke (1791). “Letter to a Member of the National Assembly”, p.11

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• The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

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  Taste, Causes, Judgment

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.19

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• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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  Evil, Enemy, Good And Evil

  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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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

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  Men, Numbers, Understanding

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