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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Delusion Give Liberties Never Never Give Up People Some Up

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Community Direction Dress Effect End Follow Force Form General Give Inclination Legislature Public Sanction Sense Specific Technical True

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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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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Admire Challenge Climbing Express Give Go Mountains See Sense Them Try You

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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Applause Astonishment Bad Bit Feeling Give Know Lecture Little Little Bit People Realised Thousand Tumultuous Well Will You I Can

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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About Acknowledge America Course Direction Disagree Even Events Franklin Give Great Great Men Jefferson Lasting Lincoln Made May Maybe Men More Possibly Precisely Roosevelt Several Them Washington Would

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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Address American Apart Beginning Beliefs Carried Clue Complex Condition Dealing Give Human Human Condition Interest Intrinsic Itself Level Lives Meant Point Puritans Reached Scholarship System Them Where

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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

~Edmund Waller

Topics: Calm Give More Passions Quiet Seas Winds

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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

~Edmund Waller

Topics: Enough Give Hand Sparing Us

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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

~Edmund Waller

Topics: Bound Compass Fair Give Give Me Goes Good Me Narrow Rest Round Sun Take

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