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Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke

“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches (1963 edition), Transaction Publishers - ISBN: 9781412822220
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Edmund Burke

“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1801 edition)
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Edmund Burke

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

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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Edmund Burke

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

- Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

“All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.”

- Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

- Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”

- Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (06 September 1780).
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Edmund Burke

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1826 edition)
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Edmund Burke

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

- Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

“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

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Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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