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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Business
Edmund Burke

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

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Tyranny
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Law and Lawyers
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Liberty
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Economy and Economics
Edmund Burke

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Doubt
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Fear
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
Religion
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Government
Edmund Burke

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Patience
Edmund Burke

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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Fame
Edmund Burke

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Patience will achieve more than force.
Patience
Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
History and Historians
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Slavery
Edmund Burke

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
Nations
Edmund Burke

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Superstition
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Youth
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Curiosity
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Evil
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
Liberty
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Liberty
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
Uncategorised
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Mobs
Edmund Burke

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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
Weakness
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