Irish - Statesman | January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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