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First Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
- Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them…
- The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
- To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)…
- What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness…
- There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced…
- What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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