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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE

Love Man Power
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE

Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

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