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• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 531...
• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 526...
• The wisdom of our ancestors. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Observations on Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation, -- Vol.
  i, p. 516, Also in the Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence -- Bill, 1793...
• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulou
  of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth....
• There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Observations on Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation, -- Vol....
• Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
  xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol....
• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 136...
• My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 118...