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"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Applause

"Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Caution

"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Complaints and Complaining

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Curiosity

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Example

"The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Finance

"In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Inheritance

"The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Liberty

"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Manners

"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
Author:     Edmund Burke Category:     Obstinacy


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