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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

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE

Love Man Power
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE

Abandonment Power Willing
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
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE

Courage Coward Tongue
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE

Essence Force Law Stupidity

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