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• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• 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...
• Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
  xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
• 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...
• All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 169...
• 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....