Edmund Burke

Ireland
12 Jan 1729 // 9 Jul 1797
Statesman / Author / Orator/ Philosopher

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement
Passion for fame: a passion which is the instinct of all great souls
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity
Laws, like houses, lean on one another
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business
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