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Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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