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Edmund Burke
Profession : Statesman
Birth : January 12, 1729
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
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
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
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