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• The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Government, Liberty

  "The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

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• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  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.230

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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  Reality, Mind, Body

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• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

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  Country, Peace, War

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

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  Trust, Power, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.496

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• I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 7

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

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  World, Vex, Arise

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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  Birthday, Europe, Forever

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

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  Men, Thinking, Design

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 59

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

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  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

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  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

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  Independent, Decree, Tribunals

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• The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

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  Success, Mind, Criteria

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• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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  Spring, Liars, Lying

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

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  Independence, Psychological, Anxious

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

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• Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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  Debt, Static, Equity

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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• The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

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  Country, War, Men

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

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• Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

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  Curiosity, Mind, Degrees

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

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  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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  Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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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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• Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

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  Men, Too Much, Masters

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.77

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• Education is a nation's cheapest defence

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  Historical, Defence, Nations

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