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• 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...
• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 117...
• There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech in opening the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Third Day, -- Vol....
• 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...
• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- A Vindication of Natural Society...
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 108...
• The march of the human mind is slow. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 149...
• edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke