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• He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

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  Treasure, Ancestor, Remembered

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• The grand instructor, time.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Instructors

  Edmund Burke (1856). “The Works of the R.H. Edmund Burke”, p.57

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• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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  Commitment, Government, Political

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

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  Life, Caution, Circumspection

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

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  Men, Misery, Prosperity

  Edmund Burke (1791). “Letter to a Member of the National Assembly”, p.11

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• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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  Order, Liberty, Possessed

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 55

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• Good order is the foundation of all things.

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  Order, Foundation, Organize

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

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• The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

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  Government, Principles, Moments

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• Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

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  Character, Power, Men

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3876, Delphi Classics

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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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• Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

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  Mean, Human Nature, Reason

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.52

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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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• I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

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  Men, Mind, Littles

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.7

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• General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

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• Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

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  Dog, Animal, Creation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Works”, p.130

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• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

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  Greatness, Long, Dominion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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  Nature, Greatness, Statistics

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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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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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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  Agreement, Political, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

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  Government, Democracy, Helping

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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  Tyrants, Tyranny, Multitudes

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

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• The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

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  Teaching, Investigation, Method

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• Turn over a new leaf.

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  Leafs, Turns

  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.422

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• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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  Evil, Enemy, Good And Evil

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

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• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

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  Peace, War, Military

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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