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“Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.”

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Edmund Burke, a British statesman and writer, was born on January 12, 1729, and died on July 9, 1797. He was one of the most prominent political thinkers of the 18th century, known for his profound insights into liberty, democracy, and conservatism. more

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“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.”

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“There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.”

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“To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.”

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“I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.”

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“He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.”

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Book:A Letter On the Affairs of America

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“In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.”

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Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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“It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.”

May Language Superiors Polished Clearness

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“As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.”

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Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .”

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Book:The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke

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