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Irish Statesman January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797

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A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke quote: "If you can be well without health, you may be happy without..."
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. Edmund Burke
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every... Edmund Burke
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke quote: "Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may..."
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke quote: "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity,..."
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke quote: "Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a..."
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke quote: "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. Edmund Burke

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