Edmund Burke, Maxioms by Edmund Burke Biography

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But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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Edmund Burke