Edmund Burke

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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."	Justice
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows."	Poetry
"It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery."	Justice
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."	Justice
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."	Reading
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."	Anti-God, Books
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."	Comedy, Help
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation."	Youth
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."	Anti-Religion, War
"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume."	Politics
"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
"That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth."	Economics, Liberty
"The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle."	Economics, Liberty
"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
"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."	Comedy, Greatness
"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
"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
"Education is the cheap defence of nations."	Education
"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear."	Fear
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