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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
EDMUND BURKE

Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE

Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
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

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

Change Conservation Conversation State
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity

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