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Results from Cole's Quotables:

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
You can never plan the future by the past.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Results from Poor Man's College:

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
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)
Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

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