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Taken Quotes by Edmund Burke
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
- This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
- But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,…
- People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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