Accusation Quote by Edmund Burke

“He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.”

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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,…

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“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead,…

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