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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
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 great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE

Corruption Existence Liberty People
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition

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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