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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

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  Taken, Loss, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

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

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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Family, Memories

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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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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• You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

  Edmund Burke

  Community, Consistency, Treats

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.402

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• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Mean, Diversity

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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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.

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  Mind, Gang, Infamous

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Government, Doe

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Health

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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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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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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  Country, Lovely, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Instructors, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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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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• Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

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  Government, Law, Anarchy

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

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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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• There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

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  Mean, World, Moral

  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.226

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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.

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  Relationship, Taken, People

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