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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKE

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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

Age Economics Forever Success
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE

Defend Errors Inheritance

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