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In their nomination to office ...

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Nothing is so rash as fear; it...

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

In on summer they have done th...

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

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We are in a war of a peculiar ...

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest,

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

That great chain of causes, wh...

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

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It is the love of the people; ...

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

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To complain of the age we live...

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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A thing may look specious in t...

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

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Jacobinism is the revolt of th...

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

A definition may be very exact...

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

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We begin our public affection ...

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

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Nothing less will content me, ...

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

The power of discretionary dis...

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

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Man is by his constitution a r...

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Parliament is a deliberative a...

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

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The unbought grace of life, th...

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

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To prove that the Americans ou...

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

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To govern according to the sen...

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

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There are three estates in Par...

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

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He that accuses all mankind of...

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

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