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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

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  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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• I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

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  World, Advantage, Distrust

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• It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

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  Wicked, Rivals, Ruins

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

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• By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

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  Games, Mind, Causes

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

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  Wise, Hands, Oppression

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

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  Light, Air, Views

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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  Letting Go, Powerful, Reflection

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.251, CUP Archive

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• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

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  Truth, Imagination, Fiction

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

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  Truth, Exercise, Men

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3863, Delphi Classics

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

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  Hate, Danger, Despise

  Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

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  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

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  America, Cost, Taxation

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

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  Men, Mind, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

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• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

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  Rude, Benefits, Fierce

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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• A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

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  Perfect, Democracy, World

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 139

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• The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

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  Inspirational, Law, People

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.73

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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  War, Long, People

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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  Men, Ability, Good Service

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.59

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• All government is founded on compromise and banter.

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  Government, Compromise, Banter

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• Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

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  Art, Men, Prejudice

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• Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

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  Religious, Men, Animal

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

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

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  Wise, Business, Add

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.157

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• For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

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  Mean, Power, Politics

  "The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke".

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• A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

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  Law, Justice, Investing

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Where mystery begins religion ends.

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  Mystery, Ends

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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