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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Beauty Happiness Promise

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Kings Policy Principle Rebels Subjects Tyrants Will

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Change Conservation Means Some State Without

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Eating Like Read Reflecting Without

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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.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Before Congratulations Effect Individuals Liberty May Ought Please Risk See Them Will

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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Antagonist He Helper Nerves Our Sharpens Skill Strengthens Struggles Us

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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.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Associate Bad Bad Men Combine Contemptible Else Fall Good Men Must Sacrifice Struggle Will

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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Based Free Free Trade Justice Trade Utility

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Ambition Creep Soar Well

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Anxious Error General Loudest Most Popular Public Suppose Welfare

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Statesman

Born: January 12th, 1729

Died: July 9th, 1797

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