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• We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

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  Country, War, Passion

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• Responsibility prevents crimes.

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  Responsibility, Prison, Crime

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

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  Life, Shadow, Pursue

  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.169

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• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

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  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

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• The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

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  Success, Selfish, Men

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• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

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  Taken, Together, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (1798). “The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings, &c. of that Extraordinary Man, Alphabetically Arranged ... to which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Life, with Some Original Anecdotes of Mr. Burke”, p.383

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• A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

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  Hate, Order, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

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• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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  Congratulations, Risk, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.396, Penguin

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• The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

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  Men, Years, Wish

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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  Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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• One source of the sublime is infinity.

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  Sublime, Infinity, Source

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• If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

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  Order, Silence, May

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.9, CUP Archive

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• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

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  Greatness, Men, States

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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  Past, Age, Complaining

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

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• Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

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  Healing, Heart, Simplicity

  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.43

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

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  Adversity, Skills, Challenges

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• In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

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  Country, Freedom, Men

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• Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

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  Motivational, Running, Cheer

  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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• In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

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  Summer, Art, Army

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• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

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  Fire, Play, House

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 10

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• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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  Learning, Science, Casts

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 117

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• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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  Powerful, People, Be Good

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.292

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• Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

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  Voice, Crafts, Reason

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 34

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• The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

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  Mourning, Care, Way

  Edmund Burke “The Correspondence of Edmund Burke”, CUP Archive

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• The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

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  Taken, Common, Graves

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