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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke PC (12 January NS 17299 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.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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