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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

Topics: Any Any Circumstances Being Circumstances Civil Civil Society Departure Eminent Great Itself Justice Lies Policy Society Standing Suspicion

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Auction Become Choose Construction Guides Instead Instruments Leaders Legislators Make People Popularity Service State Talents Themselves Will

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Feeble Government Nothing Oppressive Out Turns Unjust

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Afford Beyond Costs Go Hypocrisy Intending Magnificent Never Nothing Promise Promises

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Feeble Minds Religion Superstition

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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

Topics: Humanity Justice Lawyer May Me Ought Reason Tell Tells

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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Betrays He His Industry Instead Judgment Only Opinion Owes Representative Sacrifices Serving You Your

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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.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Age Chivalry Economists Europe Forever Glory Gone Succeeded

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Abuse Dangerous Greater More Power

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You can never plan the future by the past.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Future Never Past Plan You

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Statesman

Born: January 12th, 1729

Died: July 9th, 1797

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