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    Edmund Burke

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


    — Edmund Burke

    #barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

    By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #even #gnawing #may #nation #rat

    Our patience will achieve more than our force. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #achieve #force #more #our #than

    Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #his #industry #instead #judgment #only

    Beauty is the promise of happiness. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #happiness #promise

    A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #backward #confined #forward #generally #innovation






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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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