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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

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Too Much, Masters

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

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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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• 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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• Education is a nation's cheapest defence

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  Historical, Defence, Nations

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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  Past, Age, Complaining

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

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• What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

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  Life, Shadow, Pursue

  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.169

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• Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

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  Healing, Heart, Simplicity

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.43

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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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• 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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