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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

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
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
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKE

Cheap Defense Education Nation
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
EDMUND BURKE

Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

Flatter Generosity Receive
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKE

Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE

Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE

Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
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

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