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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.Edmund Burke
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.
Edmund Burke
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, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
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