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• 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....
• 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....
• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Vol....
• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, Vol.
  vii, p. 50...
• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 356...
• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 334...
• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 335...
• People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 274...
• That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332...