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Been Quotes by Edmund Burke
- I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the…
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires…
- I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in…
- The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
- Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can…
- I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason
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