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

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Edmund Burke wäre heute 294 Jahre, 8 Monate, 13 Tage oder 107.637 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.01.1729 in Dublin
Gestorben am 09.07.1797 in Beaconsfield/London
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• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of dept; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

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• Dangers by being despised grow great.

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• Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

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• Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

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• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparsion, no judgment.

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• Education is the cheap defence of nations.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Education is the chief defense of nations.

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• Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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• Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the orang-outang or the tiger.

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• Every politician ought to sacrifice to the graces; and to join compliance with reason.

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

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• Falsehood has a perennial spring.

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

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• Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

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• Good order is the foundation of all good things.

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• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

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• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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