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  • If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

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    Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.9, CUP Archive

  • Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

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    Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

  • Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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  • There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

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    Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

  • Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

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    Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

  • The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

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    Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics
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Edmund Burke

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