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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
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The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Letters on a Regicide Peace, 1796
An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
You can never plan the future by the past.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

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