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Edmund Burke

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.


— Edmund Burke


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You can never plan the future by the past.


— Edmund Burke


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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.


— Edmund Burke


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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.


— Edmund Burke


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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.


— Edmund Burke


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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.


— Edmund Burke


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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.


— Edmund Burke


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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.


— Edmund Burke


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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.


— Edmund Burke


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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.


— Edmund Burke


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Macaulay recorded in his diary: "I have now finiEdmund Burked reading again most of Burke's works. As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you. He graduated in 1748.

Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman author orator political theorist and philosopher who after moving to England served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. Since the 20th century he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century.

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