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  • Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

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    Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

  • 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

  • A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

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    Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

  • Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

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    Edmund Burke (1882). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”

  • Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

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  • Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

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    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

  • Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

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  • Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

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    Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin
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Edmund Burke

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