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• The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Names, Agitation

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• Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

  Edmund Burke

  Fall, Political, Quality

  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.87

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, Add, Taxation

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.151

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• All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Government, Giving

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Desire, Want

  "Impact of a Father's Reflection". Book by Frank L. Day, p. 44, 2010.

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• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Real, Degrees

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.106

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• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Careful, Against Religion

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.7

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• He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Block, Tree, Chips

  1781 Commenting on William Pitt theYounger's maiden speech in the House of Commons, 26 Feb.

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• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Men, May

  Edmund Burke (2012). “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, Government, Political

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

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• The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Fear, Weakness, Weak

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Saving, Virtue, Economy

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

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• All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Judging

  "The Works of Edmund Burke, with a Memoir".

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

  Edmund Burke

  Jealous, History, Proud

  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.86

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• Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Gentleman, May

  Letter to William Smith, 29 January 1795, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 8 (1969)

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• The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Wealth, Rich

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

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• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Greatness, Honor

  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 ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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• But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Taken, Together

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.280

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• He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

  Edmund Burke

  Remember, Corruption, Accusation

  Edmund Burke (2015). “A Letter On the Affairs of America”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Church, One Day, Mankind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Injustice, Ministers, Fraud

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, Essentials, May

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3780, Delphi Classics

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