Irish - Statesman | January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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