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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  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.353

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

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• Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Gang, Infamous

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.378

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

  Edmund Burke

  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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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

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• Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Law, Anarchy

  Edmund Burke (1988). “Irish Affairs”, Vintage

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• Those who attempt to level never equalize

  Edmund Burke

  Levels

  1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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• Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Mind, Politics

  "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Collected in Three Volumes".

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• People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Government, Law

  Letter to Charles James Fox, 8 October 1777, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 3 (1961)

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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• Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Duty, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin

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• This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.203

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• To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Language, Speak, Virtue

  Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

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• History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

  Edmund Burke

  Revenge, Ambition, Pride

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.161

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• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

  Edmund Burke

  Relationship, Taken, People

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Friendship, Change

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

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• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

  Edmund Burke

  Indifference

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

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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Government, Doe

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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  Love, Country, Patriotic

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Smart, Inspiration

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Darkness, Succeed

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