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Edmund Burke

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.


— Edmund Burke


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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.


— Edmund Burke


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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.


— Edmund Burke


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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.


— Edmund Burke


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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.


— Edmund Burke


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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.


— 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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.


— Edmund Burke


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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.


— 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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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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