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• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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  Learning, Science, Casts

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 117

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• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

  Edmund Burke

  Powerful, People, Be Good

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.292

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

  Edmund Burke

  Voice, Crafts, Reason

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 34

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• One source of the sublime is infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Sublime, Infinity, Source

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• Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

  Edmund Burke

  Quality, Vices, Causes

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• All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Justice, Judging

  "The Works of Edmund Burke, with a Memoir".

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• All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

  Edmund Burke

  Virtue

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.173

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• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

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  Country, Men, May

  Edmund Burke (2012). “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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• My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

  Edmund Burke

  Strong, Names, Iron

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

  Edmund Burke

  Humility, Humanity, Humiliation

  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.170

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• When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

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  Ideas, Force, Labor

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

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  Exercise, Government, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.213

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

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  Saving, Virtue, Economy

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Survival, Reform

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• A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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  Jealousy, Light, Torches

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• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

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  Spring, Shadow, Credit

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

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• As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

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  Real, Agriculture, Occupation

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• Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Men, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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• Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

  Edmund Burke

  Kind, Pleasure

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Careful, Against Religion

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.7

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• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  Edmund Burke

  Commitment, Essentials, May

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3780, Delphi Classics

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• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Greatness, Honor

  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 ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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• Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

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  Church, One Day, Mankind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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