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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they… — Madeleine Albright
Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different… — Chris Burke
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without… — Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. — Edmund Burke
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. — Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all things. — Edmund Burke
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. — Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical… — Edmund Burke
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being… — Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity… — Edmund Burke
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which… — Edmund Burke
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in… — James Lee Burke
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I… — James Lee Burke
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're… — Carol Burnett
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to… — Carol Burnett

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