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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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition

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.

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