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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

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
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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

Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKE

Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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

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