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• All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

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  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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  Order, Liberty, Possessed

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 55

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• Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

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  Exercise, Government, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.213

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

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  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

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  Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

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  Humility, Humanity, Humiliation

  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.170

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• All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

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  Virtue

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.173

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• My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

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  Strong, Names, Iron

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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  Quality, Vices, Causes

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• When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

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  Ideas, Force, Labor

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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  Art, Poetry, Shadow

  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.511

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• As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

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  Real, Agriculture, Occupation

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• Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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  Kind, Pleasure

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

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  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  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.417

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• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

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  Failure, Destiny, Men

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 1 (1796)

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• I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

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  Victory, Wish, Noble

  Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

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• A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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  Jealousy, Light, Torches

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• Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

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  Sweet, Men, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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  Understanding, Planning, Observation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “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.175

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• You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

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  Struggle, Political, World

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.148

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• A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

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  Mean, Survival, Reform

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• Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

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  Society, Liberty, Appetite

  Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

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• If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

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  Poor, Ifs, Property

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• The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

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  Pride, Men, Advice

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

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• The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

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  Independent, Decree, Tribunals

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