Edmund Burke

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"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."	Art, Government, Happiness
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."	Evil, Good, Men
"Ambition can creep as well as soar."	Ambition
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."	Adversity, Difficulty
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."	Justice
"Education is the cheap defence of nations."	Education
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."	Education, Learning, Men
"Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits.... It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind."	Success, Lies
"Good order is the foundation of all things."	Evil
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions."	Desires, Government, Knowledge
"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."	Comedy, Greatness
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper."	Ability, Help, Strength
"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."	Death, History, Life
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."	Anti-Religion, War
"If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,-and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter."	Government
"It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery."	Justice
"It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them."	Government
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."	Justice
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."	Men
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