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Edmund Burke

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.


— Edmund Burke


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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.


— Edmund Burke


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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.


— Edmund Burke


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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.


— Edmund Burke


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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.


— Edmund Burke


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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.


— Edmund Burke


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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.


— Edmund Burke


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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.


— Edmund Burke


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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.


— Edmund Burke


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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.


— 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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