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Edmund Burke

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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.


— Edmund Burke


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Ambition can creep as well as soar.


— Edmund Burke


#creep #soar #well

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.


— Edmund Burke


#beauty #distress #most #much

Custom reconciles us to everything.


— Edmund Burke


#everything #reconciles #us

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.


— Edmund Burke


#free #free trade #justice #trade #utility

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.


— Edmund Burke


#frugality #limits #principal #riches

Good order is the foundation of all things.


— Edmund Burke


#foundation #good #order #things

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.


— Edmund Burke


#been #business #i #inferior #lead

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.


— Edmund Burke


#carried #i #long #people #say

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.


— 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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