Irish - Statesman | January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
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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.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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