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Edmund Burke

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.


— Edmund Burke


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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.


— Edmund Burke


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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.


— Edmund Burke


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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.


— Edmund Burke


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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.


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


— Edmund Burke


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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.


— Edmund Burke


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


— Edmund Burke


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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.


— Edmund Burke


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Did you know about Edmund Burke?

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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