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Publizist, Politiker, Philosoph (Irland, 1729 - 1797).

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Edmund Burke wäre heute 294 Jahre, 2 Monate, 16 Tage oder 107.456 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.01.1729 in Dublin
Gestorben am 09.07.1797 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

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• A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation.

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• A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

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• Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

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• All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

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• All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principleof resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.

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• Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

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• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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• And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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• As wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

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• At last dying in the last dyke of prevarication.

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• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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• Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

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• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

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• Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

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• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

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• By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

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• By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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