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Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.


— Edmund Burke


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The march of the human mind is slow.


— Edmund Burke


#human mind #march #mind #slow

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!


— Edmund Burke


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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.


— Edmund Burke


#multitude #tyranny

To innovate is not to reform.


— Edmund Burke


#reform

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.


— Edmund Burke


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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.


— Edmund Burke


#seldom #tyrants #want

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.


— Edmund Burke


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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.


— Edmund Burke


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Falsehood is a perennial spring.


— Edmund Burke


#perennial #spring






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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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