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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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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.


— Edmund Burke


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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.


— 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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.


— Edmund Burke


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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.


— 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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.


— Edmund Burke


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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.


— 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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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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