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«What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
dependence, fitness, posse, posses, retain
«The traveller has reached the end of the journey!»
«In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
altars, binding, blood relation, charities, cherishing, combined, dearest, domestic, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, hearths, inseparable, mutually, polity, reflected, Ties That Bind
«Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Fraud
| Keywords:
fraud, minister, Minister of
«Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart»
«Public calamity is a mighty leveler»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Disaster
| Keywords:
calamity, leveler, levelers
«In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
languid, masterly, persecute, sluggish, vehement
«Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Applause
| Keywords:
applause, noble-minded, spur, spurred
«Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed»
«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
ask me, competent, for all practical purposes, Judges, lawful
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