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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Always Crushed Dangerous Enemies Hope Law Laws Lose Most No Hope Nothing People Power Those Who Will

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Beneficial Circumstances Civil Color Distinguishing Effect Every Give Mankind Political Principle Reality Render Scheme

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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Also Ever God Man

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Art Existence Lending Nothing Poetry Shadows

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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Human Justice Laws Only Original Over Power Properly Speaking Substance

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The march of the human mind is slow.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Human Human Mind March Mind Slow

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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge Free Men Minds Ordained Passions Things

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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.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Act Boundary Feelings Imagination Influence Men None Passions

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion

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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.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Actual Any Case Considerable Endured Ever Grieves Grow Happens He Him His Loves Man Never Pain Passion Person Suffers Time Which Who Willingly

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Statesman

Born: January 12th, 1729

Died: July 9th, 1797

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