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

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Change

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

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• There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

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  Differences, Sublime, And Love

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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  Indifference

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

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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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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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  Flattery, Giver, Flattering

  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.9

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

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  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.

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  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.

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  People, Darkness, Succeed

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• The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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  Knaves, Dupes, Invention

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.363

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

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  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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  Struggle, Greatness, Men

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.164

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• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

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  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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  Passion, Character, Men

  Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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  Children, School, Example

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

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• When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

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  Motivational, Time, Men

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.386

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• Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

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  Political, Directors, Firsts

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

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• Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

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  Religion, Comfort, Source

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.560, Transaction Publishers

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• True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

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  Religion, Foundation, Fabric

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• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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  Events, Statistics, Scandal

  Speech, 5 May 1789, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 2, p. 109

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• Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

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  Power, Law, Arbitrary

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.479, Transaction Publishers

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• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

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• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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  Hands, Government Welfare, Scarcity

  'Thoughts and Details on Scarcity' (1800)

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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.

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  Country, Taken, Together

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

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