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    Edmund Burke

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    Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #applause #end #minds #noble #ones

    He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #cause #failings #fame #generous #great

    Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #limited #must #order #possessed

    No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

    People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #backward #forward #look #never #people

    Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

    Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety

    Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #grows #slavery #soil #weed

    Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #forgives #gospel #murder #never #new

    The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ↗


    — Edmund Burke

    #arrogance #must #submit #taught #youth






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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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