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• 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...
• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 516...
• 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....
• The men of England,--the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 365...
• 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 men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, 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...