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• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Preface to Brissot's Address, Vol.
  v, p. 67...
• 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...