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  • It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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    Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64

  • 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.

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    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

  • When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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    Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18

  • 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.

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    Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

  • Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

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    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3876, Delphi Classics

  • Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

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    Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.14

  • Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

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  • It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

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    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics
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Edmund Burke

  • Born: January 12, 1729
  • Died: July 9, 1797
  • Occupation: Statesman
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